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Karadzic guilty of genocide, jailed for 40 years

– ‘Hugely significant’ –

“I hope this court will fulfil its mission and put this man behind bars. Our children are dead,” Munira Subasic, from the Mother’s of Srebrenica, told AFP before the verdict.

“I hope finally the lies that have been told in Bosnia will be exposed,” she added.

Karadzic is the highest-profile politician from the Balkans conflicts to be judged, after former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic died in his prison cell while on trial in 2006.

UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein hailed the verdict as “hugely significant”.

The hearing, which has drawn more than 200 journalists and over 100 other diplomats and observers, took place amid tight security, with one police officer saying they were on “extra alert” following Tuesday’s attacks in neighbouring Belgium.

Karadzic, as president of the breakaway Republika Srpska, was accused of taking part in a joint criminal scheme to “permanently remove Muslim and Bosnian Croat inhabitants… from areas claimed as Bosnian Serb territory”.

This was done through a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate killings, persecutions and terror.

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