Evidence Presentation
Evidence Presentation
Evidence Presentation
• The basic facts of these campaigns, including the widespread instances of mass
killings and other murders, rape, and other brutalities, have been extensively
documented, from news accounts at the time they were taking place to reports
from international observers during the war, accounts by journalists and other
observers.
• Donia meticulously documents the twists and turns that enabled Karadžič to
contain Serb regionalism, forge links with Serbia's president Slobodan Milosevic,
and ensure cooperation with the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). According to
Donia, by September 1991, Karadžič had undergone «a personal and political
metamorphoshis».
• Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR. (n.d.). https://www.jstor.org/stable/43908398
• What is indisputable is that Karadzic had his own plan for Bosnia's
partition and that the brutal killing of peaceful demonstrators in Sarajevo
in April of 1992 was the beginning of his career as a «callous perpetrator»
• ACCUSED of having committed from April 1992 to July 1995 in the Republic of
• Bosnia and Herzegovina in the territory of the former Yugoslavia the following
crimes:
• Grave breaches of the Conventions of Geneva of 12 August 1949
• Violations of the laws or customs of war
• Genocide
• Crimes against humanity, within the competence of the Tribunal by virtue of
Articles 2,3,4 and 5 of the Statute
• Murphy, S. D. (2001). Award of damages against Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadžić. American Journal
of International Law, 95(1), 143–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642046
In 1993, Muslim and Croat victims of atrocities that were allegedly committed by Serb forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina filed two cases in U.S.
federal court against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic 6.1 The lawsuits alleged various atrocities, including brutal acts of rape, forced
prostitution, forced impregnation, torture, and summary execution as part of a genocidal campaign conducted in the course of the conflict in
the former Yugoslavia. Karadzic had been the president of the self-proclaimed Bosnian-Serb republic of "Srpska" during the conflict, and was
subsequently indicted for his actions by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.2
. On August 16, that verdict was incorporated into a judgment of the court," which also issued a permanent injunction stating that Karadzic and
his forces were enjoined and restrained from committing or facilitating "any acts of 'ethnic cleansing' or genocide, including rape, enforced
pregnancy, forced prostitution, torture, wrongful death, extrajudicial killing, or any other act committed in order to harm, destroy or
exterminate any person on the basis of ethnicity, religion and/or
• Kaplan, R. M. (2016). Doctors and the Armenian and Bosnian genocides. Health and History, 18(2), 40.
https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.18.2.0040
• While both sides made some gains, Slobodan Milosevic,the Serbian leader, set his sights on the multi-ethnic
state of Bosnia- Herzegovina.49 Milosevic coopted the Serbian Democratic Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina
(SDS; first established in Croatia to represent the Croatian Serbs) for attaining his goal to create Greater
Serbia. In 1999 the SDS proclaimed a network of ‘Serb Autonomous Regions’ which from 1992 orchestrated
the removal of all Muslims and Croats in the Serbs’ path
• "Mio zio Karadzic in Italia: allo stadio per tifare Inter". Corriere.it.
27 July 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2009. also backed up by: Soares,
Claire (28 October 2009). "Caught by wiretap, Karadzic boasting about
genocide plans"
• In 2009, the prosecution presented recorded calls and transcripts of
Karadžić's political speeches. In one Karadžić is quoted as saying
"Sarajevo will be a black cauldron where Muslims will die," and that
"They will disappear, that people will disappear from the face of the
earth." In another Karadžić is quoted as saying that "Europe will be told
to go fuck itself and not come back till the job is finished. Radovan
Karadzic, private conversation wiretapped by the God, 31.31.3131
• Milan Martic, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic Indicted Along With 21 Other Accused. | International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. www.icty.org/en/sid/7237. please note that the subtopics are to
be included in this link. I was unable to do so as the formatting of this document would not allow me to do so.
With my sincerest appoligies.
-The prosecutor, Özgür Efe Eroğlu
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, including forcible sexual intercourse. Indicted for
grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 are : all the accused in the indictments "Karadzic and Mladic", "Sikirica and others" (Keraterm), "Miljkovic and others" (Bosanski
Samac), "Jelisic and Cesic" (Brcko).
• Genocide, being prohibited acts (such as, among others, killing members of a group or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group) committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic or religious group.
Indicted for genocide are : RADOVAN KARADZIC and RATKO MLADIC; DUSKO SIKIRICA (Keraterm), GORAN JELISIC (Brcko).
• Crimes against humanity, being prohibited acts (such as, among others, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture or persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds) committed in
armed conflict, international or national in character, and as a part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population. Indicted for crimes against
humanity are : all the accused in the indictments "Karadzic and Mladic", "Sikirica and others"(Keraterm), "Miljkovic and others" (Bosanski Samac), "Jelisic and Cesic"(Brcko).