Karadzic appears at UN court
Friday, 1 August 2008
THE HAGUE, July 31 (Reuters): Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before a U.N. war crimes judge for the first time on Thursday to answer genocide charges.
Karadzic (63) was arrested last week after 11 years on the run. He wore a dark suit and appeared gaunt as he sat in the court.
The man who led a breakaway Serb Republic during the Bosnian War faces two charges of genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.
He appeared at the court after spending his first night in a cell at the U.N. war crimes tribunal detention centre in the Hague.
Karadzic (63) was arrested last week after 11 years on the run. He wore a dark suit and appeared gaunt as he sat in the court.
The man who led a breakaway Serb Republic during the Bosnian War faces two charges of genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.
He appeared at the court after spending his first night in a cell at the U.N. war crimes tribunal detention centre in the Hague.