Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic to serve prison term in U.K.

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Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic to serve jail term in U.K.

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LONDON — Britain stated on Wednesday it had actually concurred previous Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadzic, founded guilty of war criminal offenses throughout the Balkan dispute of the 1990s, need to be moved to a British jail to serve the rest of his sentence.

Karadzic, 75, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in 2016 after being founded guilty of genocide for the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim males and young boys by Bosnian Serb forces. In 2019, U.N. judges at The Hague extended the prison term to a life sentence.

“Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide. He was responsible for the massacre of men, women and children at the Srebrenica genocide and helped prosecute the siege of Sarajevo with its remorseless attacks on civilians,” stated British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

“We should take pride in the fact that, from UK support to secure his arrest, to the prison cell he now faces, Britain has supported the 30 year pursuit of justice for these heinous crimes,” he stated in a declaration.

As well as genocide, Karadzic was condemned of war criminal offenses and criminal offenses versus mankind for the 44-month Serb siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and for supervising a project of ethnic cleaning that drove Croats and Muslims out of Serb-declared locations of Bosnia.

In hiding for over a years after the war, he was detained and turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in July 2008. After his conviction he was held at court’s detention centre in The Hague.