Defender demands acquittal Karadzic

the hague - The trial against the former leader of the Serbs in Bosnia, Karadzic, has been unfair. He must be acquitted or the process must be over. This was his counsel Peter Robinson argued at the start of the appeal in The Hague on Monday. The prosecutors have also lodged an appeal because they want him to receive a life sentence.

Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the Yugoslavia Tribunal in 2016 after a five-year trial for his role in ethnic cleansing in the civil war-torn country. The judges found him guilty of genocide in Srebrenica where thousands of Muslim men were executed in 1995.

Karadizic was the political leader of ethnic Serbs who wanted to prevent Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially under pressure from Western powers, becoming independent from Belgrade. They feared being a minority dominated by Bosnian Muslims. The tribunal was established in 1993 by the UN for the trial of serious crimes during the extermination wars in the former Yugoslavia.

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