Verdict Bosnian Serb leader on March 24

- The judgment of the ICTY in the trial of the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Radovan Karadzic, is on 24 March. Has announced that the President of the tribunal based in The Hague Thursday.

Karadzic is among others on trial for his responsibility for the massacres of Muslims around Srebrenica in the summer of 1995. In the besieged city Dutch peacekeepers were stationed to protect Bosnian Muslims.

Karadzic was arrested on the flight, in Belgrade, after thirteen years on July 21 2008 and transferred to the prison in Scheveningen. His trial before the tribunal began on October 26, 2009 and ended on October 7, 2014.

The charges relating to Srebrenica, due to genocide. The Srebrenica enclave would be protected by Dutch UN soldiers, but fell in July 1995 held by Bosnian Serb forces. Then, thousands of male Muslim Bosnians are systematically put to death.

Karadizic defended himself at trial. The now septuagenarian Karadzic was the political leader of ethnic Serbs who wanted to avoid by all means that Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly under pressure from Western powers, independence from Belgrade. They feared it to be dominated by Bosnian Muslims as a minority. 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.