Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has told the United Nations war crimes tribunal that he should be rewarded for promoting peace rather than charged with genocide for his role in the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s. Looking relaxed and sometimes smiling, Karadzic was speaking Tuesday as he opened his own defense at the […]
Karadzic Tells UN Court He Should Be Rewarded for Trying to Avoid War
Posted October 16th, 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC-5)
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Karadzic Says He Should Be Rewarded for Trying to Avoid War
Posted October 16th, 2012 at 5:05 am (UTC-5)
Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he should be rewarded for doing all he could to avoid war, as he began his defense Tuesday at the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Karadzic is on trial for 10 counts of war crimes and genocide stemming from the Bosnian War that followed the […]
Bosnian Serb Commander Begins Defense at War Crimes Tribunal
Posted October 16th, 2012 at 3:15 am (UTC-5)
Bosnian Serb war commander Radovan Karadzic begins his defense Tuesday at the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Karadzic is accused of masterminding the massacre of almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995. He is also accused of responsibility for the three-year siege of the […]