Radovan Karadžić Gets Life As Hague Court Upholds Genocide Conviction
Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader's conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
by Sylvia Poggioli
Mar 20, 2019
2 minutes
Appeals judges of the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have upheld Radovan Karadžić's conviction for genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
They also ruled that the 40-year sentence of Karadžić handed down in the first trial, in 2016, was too light given the gravity of the crimes.
Along with the late Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and
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