Karadzic Genocide Trial Opens After Months Of Delay

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Source: NPR

After using delaying tactics for months, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was back in a Dutch courtroom Tuesday to face the first prosecution witness. Karadzic faces 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for the war in Bosnia during the 1990s. He denies all the charges.

Outside The Hague, Admira Fazlic, 29, eagerly awaited the start of the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She was 11 when Bosnian Serbs detained her and her Bosnian-Muslim family during their brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.

"We hope that this case of Karadzic will finish as soon as possible, and that he will get the biggest punishment possible," Fazlic said.

In His Mentor's Footsteps:
The specter of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic hangs over the tribunal, which failed to bring his trial to conclusion. Milosevic died in jail in 2006, four years into the proceedings...

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