Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader sentenced on appeal to life imprisonment in March 2019 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, will leave the United Nations detention center in The Hague, the Netherlands, and he will finish serving his sentence in a prison in Great Britain. “Radovan Karadzic – underlined British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab in a statement published today by the Foreign Office website – is one of the few people found guilty of genocide. He was responsible for the massacre of men, women and children in Srebrenica and has helped to impose the siege of Sarajevo thanks to attacks without remorse on civilians “. “We – continues the minister of the government of Boris Johnson – must be proud of how the United Kingdom, from the support given to ensure his arrest to the availability of the prison cell where he will now be imprisoned, has supported the prosecution of the justice against these heinous crimes “.
As in the case of other defendants condemned by international justice, the country of detention is decided by the International Criminal Court on the basis of the willingness of the governments that support its activities and sometimes the requests of the detainees. And it can vary over time, with transfers from one country to another.
Former Yugoslavia, Karadzic sentenced to life imprisonment for Srebrenica genocide and other war crimes
Karadzic, 75, psychiatry by training, was arrested in Belgrade, while traveling on board a bus, on 21 July 2008 at the end of a long and daring hiding in Serbia under a false name (Dragan Dabic) and favored by support, cover-ups. and protections. The trial in The Hague began in 2009. In 2016 he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the atrocities committed in Srebrenica (8,000 Muslims massacred), Sarajevo (besieged for over three years) and the rest of Bosnia-Herzegovina, including killings. deportations, persecutions, torture, during the 1992-1995 war in the Balkan country. Two years ago the final sentence of the judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the body that took over from the International Criminal Tribunal for Crimes in the former Yugoslavia (ICC), which had increased the sentence.
Dayton, 25 years of the peace agreement that crystallized the war in the former Yugoslavia
by Gigi Riva
Born in Savnik, Montenegro, in June 1945, he then moved to Sarajevo, where he graduated in medicine. Aspiring poet, he was encouraged to enter politics by the Serbian nationalist intellectual Dobrica Cosic. In 1990 he founded the Serbian Democratic Party and two years later, when Bosnia and Herzegovina became an independent state, he proclaimed the creation of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later Republika Srpska), with Sarajevo as its capital, and became its president.
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