ICC NOTE: Some are likely to recall one of the worst acts of genocide to occur in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war July of 1995. General Ratko Mladic was in command of the Army of the Republik Srpska during the siege of Srebrenica. The aftermath of the siege were the deaths of 8,000 Muslim men and boys led to various International Criminal Court trials against those responsible once the war was over. The massacre was considered genocide as those targeted were of one faith located inside the town of Srebrenica which was considered to be a UN “safe area” during the war. The Bosnian war and the subsequent conflicts to follow in the region were the result of ethnic and religious violence, some being Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks among others. Recently, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is working to have his 40 year sentence appealed for his connection to the genocide. 

7/25/2016 Bosnia (Radio Free Europe) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed his 40-year jail sentence for genocide and accused UN judges of “subjecting him to a political trial.”

Karadzic’s lawyer, Peter Robinson, said on July 22 at The Hague that his client “was subjected to a political trial that was simply designed to confirm the demonization of him and the Bosnian Serb people.”

Karadzic, 71, was sentenced on March 24 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.

He was also found guilty of nine other crimes committed during Bosnia-Herzegovina’s 1992-95 war, including the siege of Sarajevo in which some 10,000 civilians died.

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