Karadzic today hears verdict

- The Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague Thursday expressed its verdict against the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Radovan Karadzic.

Karadzic was on July 21, 2008, after thirteen years on the run, held in Belgrade in a bus and about a week later transferred to the prison in Scheveningen. He had all that time lived under the false name of Dragan Dabic and changed appearance. Scheveningen he was locked in the UN's special wing. His trial before the ICTY began on October 26 2009 and ended on October 7, 2014.

He is among others on trial for genocide. That complaint is about the atrocities committed around the Bosnian Srebrenica in the summer of 1995. The enclave would be protected by Dutch peacekeepers, but fell to Bosnian Serb forces. Then, thousands of male Muslim Bosnians are systematically put to death.

The former politician, poet and psychiatrist several attempts to declare the trial invalid and slow. He claimed that his transfer was illegal in the Netherlands, he had too little time to study his file and he feared for his life. Karadizic defended himself at trial.

The tribunal was set up in 1993 by the United Nations for the prosecution of serious crimes committed during the secession wars in the former Yugoslavia that raged in the nineties.