Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, has been sentenced to life in prison by a UN tribunal for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Muslim men and boys
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appears before the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals ruling on a appeal of his 40 year sentence for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, March 20, 2019.
Karadzic showed almost no reaction as presiding judge Vagn Joensen of Denmark read out a damning judgment that means the 73-year-old former Bosnian strongman will spend the rest of his life behind bars. A screen was set up in the memorial centre in Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb troops killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995, in what international courts say was genocide.TRT WorldSurvivors and Bosnian citizens also gathered in the capital, Sarajevo, to watch the delayed broadcast from the Netherlands.
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