Karadzic’s genocide charges reinstated
Afp, The Hague
A Bosnian Muslim woman, survivor of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, mourns over body casket of her relative, at memorial cemetery in village of Potocarion near Eastern-Bosnian town of Srebrenica, on July 10, 2013. Potocari Memorial cemetery was undergoing preparations for another mass burrial yesterday, when 409 newly identified bodies will be put to final rest. Photo: AFP
The UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court yesterday reinstated a genocide charge against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, overturning on appeal an earlier decision by trial judges.
Appeal judges said the trial chamber “erred in fact in concluding that there was no evidence” of genocidal intent in relation to the killings allegedly carried out by Bosnian Serbs of Muslims and Croats in Bosnian municipalities from March to December 1992.
Karadzic, 68, now faces 11 charges, including two counts of genocide as well as accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He denies the allegations against him, all of which relate to his role in the Balkan country’s 1992-95 inter-ethnic war, in which 100,000 people were killed and some 2.2 million others left homeless.
Appeal judges said the trial chamber “erred in fact in concluding that there was no evidence” of genocidal intent in relation to the killings allegedly carried out by Bosnian Serbs of Muslims and Croats in Bosnian municipalities from March to December 1992.
Karadzic, 68, now faces 11 charges, including two counts of genocide as well as accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He denies the allegations against him, all of which relate to his role in the Balkan country’s 1992-95 inter-ethnic war, in which 100,000 people were killed and some 2.2 million others left homeless.
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