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March 21, 2019

Radovan Karadzic Sentenced to Life in Prison over Bosnian Genocide
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At The Hague, the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
rejected an appeal by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
Wednesday and increased his sentence to life in prison, calling his
initial sentence too lenient. In 2016, Karadzic became the highest-level
figure to be convicted by the tribunal for crimes committed during the
1992-1995 Bosnian War, which left more than 100,000 dead. Karadzic was
convicted of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000
Bosnian Muslims were killed during a campaign to kill "every able-bodied
male" in the town. He was also convicted of crimes associated with the
4-year siege of Sarajevo.


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