- Title: File of Srebrenica massacre ahead of 25th anniversary of killings
- Date: 6th July 2020
- Summary: BUDAK, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (FILE - JULY 6, 2007) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WORKING TO EXCAVATE MASS GRAVE SKULL AND PIECES OF FABRIC IN GRAVE PEOPLE WORKING AT EXCAVATION SITE VARIOUS OF SKULL AND BONES IN GRAVE PEOPLE WORKING AT SITE POTOCARI, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (FILE - JULY 10, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF FACTORY WHERE MUSLIMS FROM SREBRENICA WERE GATHERED IN 1995 VARIOUS OF COFFINS WITH SREBRENICA VICTIMS INSIDE FACTORY, PREPARED FOR FUNERAL POTOCARI, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (FILE - JULY 5, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WORKERS AND MACHINES DIGGING GRAVES IN CEMETERY GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN PRAYING AT MEMORIAL SITE NAMES OF MASSACRE VICTIMS ENGRAVED ON MEMORIAL STONE Bosnian Serb wartime leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were indicted in 1995, although both remained free in former Yugoslavia for more than a decade before being arrested and passed to The Hague. Growing pressure for their capture from the European Union left them ever more isolated over the following decade, as Serbia moved towards EU membership. After over a decade in hiding, they were finally arrested - Karadzic in July 2008 and Mladic in May 2011 -and handed over to the court. MOUNT OZREN, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (FILE - MAY 18, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) BOSNIAN SERB ARMY COMMANDER, RATKO MLADIC LISTENING TO LOCAL COMMANDER EXPLAINING ARMY'S POSITION HILLS WHERE BOSNIAN SERB ARMY POSITIONED MLADIC, BOSNIAN SERB LEADER RADOVAN KARADZIC AND LOCAL COMMANDER SURVEYING HILL UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BOSNIAN SERB PRESIDENT RADOVAN KARADZIC AND BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL RATKO MLADIC VARIOUS OF KARADZIC AND MLADIC IN CAR In 2016 Karadzic was convicted for the genocide at Srebrenica. He was also found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the 44-month Serb siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that terrorised the civilian population, and for overseeing a campaign of ethnic cleansing that drove Croats and Muslims out of Serb-claimed areas of Bosnia. In March 2019 U.N. appeals judges upheld Karadzic's conviction for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica and ruled that the 40-year sentence imposed at the close of his trial was too light, given the immensity of the crimes in question and sentenced Karadzic to life in prison, ending one of the most momentous trials over genocide committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (FILE - NOVEMBER 22, 2017) (REUTERS) FOUNTAIN OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY) SIGN READING (English and French) 'INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA' ON BUILDING
- Embargoed: 20th July 2020 10:34
- Keywords: Balkan wars ICTY Radovan Karadzic Ratko Mladic Srebrenica genocide massacre war crimes
- Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
- City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
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