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Reuters: Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic to appeal war crimes conviction

Published April 23, 2018 at 9:20 am

Sadik Selimovic, a survivor of July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica prays by his relatives' grave at a memorial center in Potocari, on March 24, 2016. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was found guilty in March 2016 of genocide by UN war crimes judges and sentenced to 40 years in jail over the worst atrocities on European soil since World War II. Karadzic was also found guilty of nine other charges including murder and persecution, but in what will be a blow to thousands of victims, the court in The Hague said it did not have enough evidence to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that genocide had been committed in seven Bosnian towns and villages during the 1992-1995 war.

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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will take the courtroom floor again on April 23 when he contests his conviction for genocide and a 40-year prison sentence before U.N. appeals judges.

Karadzic was convicted in 2016 for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia broke apart, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.