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02 March 2010

Reuters Factbox: War Crimes Charges Against Karadzic

Here's Reuters accounting of the charges against Radovan Karadzic

* GENOCIDE:
-- Committing, with others, genocide against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats by participating in a 'joint criminal enterprise' to remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats permanently from the territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-- Taking part in another act of genocide, the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. Prosecutors say more than 7,000 were executed in the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.

* CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
-- With others, planning, instigating, ordering and abetting persecution of Bosnian Muslims and/or Bosnian Croats.

-- Acts of extermination and murder, carried out by members of the Serb forces and Bosnian Serb political and governmental organs, that formed part of the goal of permanently removing Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from territory claimed by Bosnian Serbs.

* VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWS OR CUSTOMS OF WAR:
-- Implementing a military strategy, together with other members of a "joint criminal enterprise", that used sniping and shelling to kill, maim, wound and terrorise the civilian inhabitants of Sarajevo. Prosecutors say some 10,000 people died in the 43-month siege.

-- The detention of more than 200 U.N. peacekeepers and military observers by Bosnian Serb forces in various locations between May and June 1995.

-- Issuing threats to third parties, including NATO and U.N. commanders, that NATO air strikes on Bosnian Serb military targets would result in the injury, death or continued detention of the detainees. Some of the detainees were assaulted or otherwise maltreated during their captivity.


By: Brant

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