Karadzic appeal deadline passes

[Gunny]

A deadline for ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to the Netherlands on genocide and other charges has expired.

An appeal notice is said to have been posted by his lawyer just before 2000 (1800 GMT) at an unknown location in Serbia in order to delay the process.

Any appeal is expected to fail and Mr Karadzic is likely to be sent to The Hague within days, correspondents say.

Mr Karadzic was captured on Monday after more than 12 years in hiding.

He had been posing as an expert in alternative medicine, using the name of Dragan Dabic.

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[JW Frogen]

The International Criminal Court has just ruled that it is cruel and unusual punishment to actually punish Karadzic for his crimes.

 

[JW Frogen]

On the other hand Lynndie Edwards still faces a 'crimes against hummanity' trial before the Hague for forcing Iraqi prisoners to look at her dancing naked and chant "God an't so great".

 

[waltky]

Who, me? I didn't do anything wrong...

Radovan Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes
16 October 2012 - Radovan Karadzic: "I should have been rewarded for all the good things I've done"

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said he should be rewarded for "reducing suffering", not accused of carrying out war crimes. Beginning his defence at his trial in The Hague, he said he was a "tolerant man" who had sought peace in Bosnia. Mr Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade in 2008 after almost 13 years on the run. He faces 10 charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the war in the 1990s, including the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo. More than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed at Srebrenica in the worst single atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II. During the 44-month siege of Sarajevo more than 12,000 civilians died. Mr Karadzic, 67, went on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in October 2009.

'Truth will grow stronger'

He began his lengthy personal statement by saying he had done "everything within human power to avoid the war and to reduce the human suffering". Speaking calmly, Mr Karadzic said he was a "mild man, a tolerant man with great capacity to understand others". He had stopped the Bosnian Serb army many times when it had been close to victory, he said, had sought peace agreements, applied humanitarian measures and honoured international law. He insisted that there had been no history of conflict between ethnic groups. "Neither I, nor anyone else that I know, thought that there would be a genocide against those who were not Serbs," he said. He criticised media coverage of the war as biased and disputed the official number of victims of the war, saying the true figure was three to four times less. More than 100,000 people were killed, according to official figures. "As time passes this truth will be stronger and stronger, and the accusations and the propaganda, the lies and hatred, will get weaker and weaker," he said.

Market atrocities

One of the accusations faced by the former Bosnian Serb leader is that he adopted a military strategy of using snipers and shell attacks on the civilian population of Sarajevo. Mr Karadzic said that every shell that had fallen on Sarajevo "hurt me personally", but he complained that an attack on a street market in February 1994 had been a "shameless orchestration". While some people had clearly been killed, the former Bosnian Serb leader said "we also saw android mannequins being thrown onto trucks, creating this show for the world". The blast left 68 people dead and eyewitnesses described seeing people being torn apart by the explosion. Mr Karadzic said an investigation - conducted by Col Andrey Demurenko, the Russian chief of staff of the UN peacekeeping force - into a second attack on the same market in 1995 had concluded that Serbs "would not have fired the shells in that incident". Having called the colonel as his first witness, Mr Karadzic said the findings of his report had been "rejected as a source of information" as they went "in an unwanted direction".

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Last trial under way at Yugoslav war crimes court
17 Oct.`12 — Twenty years after war in Croatia catapulted Goran Hadzic from warehouse worker to rebel Serb president, he is in the dock in the final trial of the tribunal set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the bloody conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

His trial, in its second day Wednesday, underscores that international courts, often maligned for their failure to get suspects into custody, can bring to justice once-untouchable leaders accused of atrocities — given time and support from the international community. Hadzic, an ethnic Serb, was arrested last year in northern Serbia after more than seven years on the run and has pled not guilty to involvement in the murder of hundreds of Croats and expulsion of tens of thousands more from their homeland. He is the last of the 161 suspects indicted by the Yugoslav tribunal to go on trial. Param-Preet Singh of Human Rights Watch said the Hadzic trial is "the beginning of the end" for the tribunal, which is aiming to close its doors as it completes its final trials in coming years.

The fact that it took 20 years to reach the court's last trial, "is a good reminder that justice takes time, but it does catch up with perpetrators once states are willing to back it up," Singh added. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was the first war crimes court set up since the aftermath of World War II and helped lay the legal foundations for the permanent International Criminal Court. The court has convicted 64 suspects, acquitted 13, sent 13 for trial in local courts and withdrawn indictments against 36, including 16 who died after being charged. Eighteen suspects are on trial and 17 are appealing their convictions.

The ICC, meanwhile, has issued 22 arrest warrants but only five suspects — one of them while he appeals his conviction — are in custody a decade after its establishment. Spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said Wednesday prosecutors plan to call 85 witnesses to testify against Hadzic and have been granted 175 hours to present their case. As Hadzic's trial got under way Tuesday, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began his defense case in a neighboring courtroom. Karadzic's wartime commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, is also on trial. All three men were arrested in Serbia after years as fugitives from international justice.

Analysts say international pressure on Belgrade, which was blocked from European Union membership until it arrested all fugitives indicted by the tribunal — a policy known as conditionality — was key in getting the likes of Karadzic and Mladic into custody. "It just goes to show that conditionality can deliver results when states stand firm and maintain pressure. It's not rocket science," said Singh. The tribunal's president, Theodor Meron, conceded at the United Nations this week that the court was "little more than an ideal" when it was set up in 1993, "an expression of the outrage of the international community at the atrocities that were being broadcast on television screens" from the bloody Balkan wars.

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[mememe]

I am waiting for Clinton, Bush and Tony to be put on trial for crimes against humanity committed by them in former Yugoslavia, especially in Serbia.

 

[waltky]

Karadzic jailed for genocide in Bosnia...

Radovan Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war Srebrenica genocide
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes during the 1992-95 war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail.

UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Karadzic, 70, is the most senior political figure to face judgement over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. His case is being seen as one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two. He had denied the charges, saying that any atrocities committed were the actions of rogue individuals, not the forces under his command. The trial, in which he represented himself, lasted eight years.

Radovan Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war genocide​

The current president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik, condemned the verdict. "The West has apportioned blame to the Serbian people and that guilty cliche was imposed on all the decision-makers, including in this case today... Karadzic," he said at a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the start of Nato air strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999. "It really hurts that somebody has decided to deliver this verdict in The Hague exactly today, on the day when Nato decided to bomb Serbia... to cause so much catastrophic damage and so many casualties," Mr Dodik added.

At the scene: Paul Adams, BBC News, The Hague

Radovan Karadzic had said no reasonable court would convict him. But listening to Judge Kwon, it was hard to see how any reasonable court could not convict him. Mr Karadzic listened intently, the corners of his mouth pulled down in a look of permanent disgust and, just perhaps, disbelief. By the end of an hour and 40 minutes, it was obvious what was coming. There's a strong sense of satisfaction here that one of the chief architects of Bosnia's bloody dismemberment has finally been found guilty. The court's work is almost done. But all eyes now will be on the fate of Karadzic's main general, Ratko Mladic. His name came up a great deal during Judge Kwon's summation, particularly in regard to the massacre of Srebrenica.

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The Latest: Serbian nationalists rally supporting Karadzic
March 24,`16 — The Latest on the verdict in the case of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (all times local):

7:30 p.m.

Several thousand Serbian ultranationalists have protested the 40-year prison sentence handed to the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic by a U.N. war crimes court. Carrying posters of Karadzic and other accused Serbian war criminals, far-right supporters in the Serbian capital of Belgrade said Thursday that Karadzic was convicted only because he was a Serb. Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, who himself is awaiting a war crimes verdict next week, says Karadzic “was convicted innocent, without guilt.” He adds “the verdict against Karadzic is a verdict against the entire Serb people, the entire Serbian nation.” The court in The Hague, Netherlands, has tried Seselj for recruiting paramilitary units that committed atrocities during the 1991-95 wars in Croatia and Bosnia.

Bosnian Serb people watch the TV broadcast of the sentencing Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, in western Bosnian town of Banja Luka, Bosnia, on Thursday, March, 24,2016. Karadzic was convicted of genocide and nine other charges Thursday at a U.N. court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.​

5:45 p.m.

Serbia’s president is pledging support to the Serb mini-state in Bosnia, warning that its future may be brought into question after wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide by a U.N. court and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Tomislav Nikolic said Thursday that “this verdict cannot and must not affect the fate of Republika Srpska” — the Serb entity in Bosnia. He adds that Serbia will “use its right ... to support Republika Srpska and help it survive.” Serbia backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war. Then-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was one of the signatories of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the carnage.

5 p.m.

A Serbian human rights expert says the genocide verdict against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a landmark because it will no longer allow for new interpretations of wartime events during the worst carnage in Europe since World War II. Natasa Kandic said Thursday “this ruling is an obstacle for revisions of history, for what has really happened” in Bosnia during the war. She says: “This is the most important verdict. He was the supreme commander. He was convicted for acts he knew about. It is justice for both the victims and Karadzic himself.” Kandic says that instead of the 40-year prison sentence, “it would have been more logical that he received the life sentence, but this one is more or less the same.”

4:35 p.m.

 

[montelatici]

He was found guilty of genocide and he did not eliminate all the Bosnian Muslims. Finally, a case in international law that confirms that the crime of genocide does not require that the perpetrator kill all of the targeted group.

 

[waltky]

War criminal kicks the bucket...

Goran Hadzic, Croatian-Serb war crimes defendant, dies at 57
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 - Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic, tried by an international war crimes court over his role in the Croatia war, dies at the age of 57.

He had been on trial on war crimes charges at an international tribunal but was provisionally released last year after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Hadzic led Serb separatist forces in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, and was charged with the murder of non-Serbs. He had pleaded not guilty and died at a hospital in Novi Sad in northern Serbia. "After a severe illness Goran Hadzic died today," the regional hospital of Vojvodina said, according to Serbia's state-run Tanjug news agency.

In 2011 Hadzic became the last remaining wartime fugitive to be captured for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after almost seven years on the run. He was a central figure in the self-proclaimed Serb republic of Krajina in 1992-1993, leading the campaign to block Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia. Serbs controlled nearly a third of Croatia at the height of the war.

The former wartime leader faced 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including persecution, extermination, and torture. He was held responsible for the massacre of almost 300 men in Vukovar in 1991 by Croatian Serb troops and for the deportation of 20,000 people from the town after it was captured. The Hague-based tribunal had ordered an indefinite halt to his trial in April given his medical condition.

Goran Hadzic, Croatian-Serb war crimes defendant, dies at 57 - BBC News

 

[Phoenall]

He was found guilty of genocide and he did not eliminate all the Bosnian Muslims. Finally, a case in international law that confirms that the crime of genocide does not require that the perpetrator kill all of the targeted group.

But has to kill a certain number with the intent of diminishing the population of that group. Giving them medical treatment to help increase their numbers is not genocide as you claim by the Jews