22 minutes agoRadovan Karadzic disagrees with pronounced sentence, urges retrial
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has today appealed the 40-year prison sentence before a UN court, demanding retrial after praising that the trial against him has been “meta-designed process”, which has “taken to an unfair” result. During his address at the hearing in The Hague, [...]
During his address at the hearing in The Hague, Karadzic has called on judges to reject his conviction for crimes committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1992-95.
Karadzic, 72, has said before the five-judge panel that Serbian forces have acted in self-defense during the conflict, which has left more than 100,000 people dead and 2.2 million others have been forced to flee their homes.
There is so much evidence that our strategy has not been offensive. Our strategy has been protective throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina”, he said.
Karadzic and his legal team have argued that prosecutors and judges, during the trial, have committed a series of legal and procedural errors.
On the other hand, prosecutors are also appealing for Karadzic's sentence, demanding that judges be sentenced to life in prison.
The decision to that effect is expected to be made by the end of the year.
In March 2016, Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison under charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, including the Srebrenica massacre.
Some 8 thousand Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre. This event has been considered the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Karadzic has been sentenced by the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which has closed in December. / REL
