THE HAGUE, 29Sept, 2014 (AFP) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic “drove” ethnic cleansing during Bosnia’s bloody civil war, including some of the worst atrocities since World War II, the Yugoslav war crimes court heard on Monday.
“The policy of ethnic cleansing has been fully exposed as has Dr. Karadzic as its driving force,” UN prosecutor Alan Tieger said during closing arguments at the marathon five-year trial before the Hague-based court.
“The tragedies, one-by-one-by-one, are his responsibility,” Tieger told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ICTY.
Karadzic, 69, is facing 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the brutal 1990s Bosnian war which claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced 2.2 million people.