Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian conflict and sentenced to 40 years in jail, in Europe’s biggest war crimes judgment since the second world war.
Karadzic was convicted of genocide in the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 — the worst atrocity on European soil since 1945 — and playing a key role in the 44-month siege that brought terror to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
The verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will be seen as finally bringing justice, more than two decades later, for Croatian and Muslim victims of the three-and-a-half year Bosnian war.