Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Radovan Karadzic listened intently as the verdict and sentence was read out 
 
 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail. 
 
 UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. 
 
 Karadzic, 70, is the most senior political figure to face judgement over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. 
 
 His case is being seen as one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two. 
 
 He had denied the charges, saying that any atrocities committed were the actions of rogue individuals, not the forces under his command. 
 
 The trial, in which he represented himself, lasted eight years. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia Bakir Izetbegovic said it was a verdict of "tremendous importance" 
 
 The current president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik, condemned the verdict. 
 
 "The West has apportioned blame to the Serbian people and that guilty cliche was imposed on all the decision-makers, including in this case today... Karadzic," he said at a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the start of Nato air strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999. 
 
 "It really hurts that somebody has decided to deliver this verdict in The Hague exactly today, on the day when Nato decided to bomb Serbia... to cause so much catastrophic damage and so many casualties," Mr Dodik added. 
 
 At the scene: Paul Adams, BBC News, The Hague 
 
 Radovan Karadzic had said no reasonable court would convict him. But listening to Judge Kwon, it was hard to see how any reasonable court could not convict him. 
 
 Mr Karadzic listened intently, the corners of his mouth pulled down in a look of permanent disgust and, just perhaps, disbelief. By the end of an hour and 40 minutes, it was obvious what was coming. 
 
 There's a strong sense of satisfaction here that one of the chief architects of Bosnia's bloody dismemberment has finally been found guilty. The court's work is almost done. 
 
 But all eyes now will be on the fate of Karadzic's main general, Ratko Mladic. His name came up a great deal during Judge Kwon's summation, particularly in regard to the massacre of Srebrenica. 
 
 It will be astonishing if Gen Mladic doesn't face a similar verdict and sentence. 
 
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 Meanwhile, some relatives of victims expressed disappointment at the outcome. 
 
 "This came too late," said Bida Smajlovic, whose husband was killed at Srebrenica. 
 
 "We were handed down a verdict in 1995. There is no sentence that could compensate for the horrors we went through or for the tears of only one mother, let alone thousands," she was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. 
 
 Karadzic's lawyer said he would appeal, a process that could take several more years. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Many Bosnians have been following the trial closely 
 
 "Dr Karadzic is disappointed and astonished. He feels that he was convicted on inference instead of evidence and will appeal [against] the judgement," Peter Robinson told journalists. 
 
 Karadzic faced two counts of genocide. 
 
 He was found not guilty of the first, relating to killing in several Bosnian municipalities. 
 
 But he was found guilty of the second count relating to Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces massacred more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. 
 
 "Karadzic was in agreement with the plan of the killings," Judge O-Gon Kwon said. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption What happened at Srebrenica? Explained in under two minutes 
 
 The massacre happened in July 1995 when Srebrenica, an enclave besieged by Bosnian Serb forces for three years, was overrun. The bodies of the victims were dumped in mass graves. 
 
 Karadzic was also found guilty of crimes against humanity relating to the siege and shelling of the city of Sarajevo over several years which left nearly 12,000 people dead. 
 
 The judge said he had significantly contributed to a plan which emanated from the leadership and whose primary purpose was to spread terror in the city. 
 
 Charges 
 
 Genocide 
 
 Count 1 - genocide (in municipalities of Bratunac, Foca, Klyuc, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica and Zvornik) - not guilty 
 
 Count 2 - genocide (in Srebrenica) - guilty 
 
 Crimes against humanity 
 
 Count 3 - persecutions - guilty 
 
 Count 4 - extermination - guilty 
 
 Count 5 - murder - guilty 
 
 Count 7 - deportation - guilty 
 
 Count 8 - inhumane acts (forcible transfer) - guilty 
 
 Violations of the laws or customs of war 
 
 Count 6 - murder - guilty 
 
 Count 9 - terror (in Sarajevo) - guilty 
 
 Count 10 - unlawful attacks on civilians (in Sarajevo) - guilty 
 
 Count 11 - taking hostage of UN observers and peacekeepers - guilty 
 
 The full indictment 
 
 Mr Karadzic was also found guilty of orchestrating a campaign known as "ethnic cleansing" of non-Serbs from the territory of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic, in which hundreds and thousands were driven from their homes. 
 
 He would only be expected to serve two-thirds of his sentence. His time spent in detention - slightly more than seven years - will count towards the total. 
 
 Top UN human rights official Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein welcomed the verdict as "hugely significant". 
 
 He said the trial "should give pause to leaders across Europe and elsewhere who seek to exploit nationalist sentiments and scapegoat minorities for broader social ills". 
 
 At least 100,000 people in total died during fighting in the the Bosnian war. The conflict lasted nearly four years before a US-brokered peace deal brought it to an end in 1995. 
 
 Gen Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb forces, is also awaiting his verdict at The Hague. 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption Radovan Karadzic in August 1995 
 
 Karadzic Timeline 
 
 1945: Born in Montenegro 
 
 1960: Moves to Sarajevo 
 
 1968: Publishes collection of poetry 
 
 1971: Graduates in medicine 
 
 1983: Becomes team psychologist for Red Star Belgrade football club 
 
 1990: Becomes president of Serbian Democratic Party 
 
 1990s Political leader of Bosnian Serbs 
 
 2008: Arrested in Serbia 
 
 2009: Trial begins at The Hague 
 
 2016: Guilty verdict, sentenced to 40 years 
 
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 The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić has been found guilty of genocide over the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and sentenced to 40 years in jail. 
 
 The key verdict from a United Nations tribunal in The Hague was delivered 18 months after a five-year trial of Karadžić, accused of being one of the chief architects of atrocities during the 1992-95 Balkans war. 
 
 The 70-year-old, who insisted his actions were aimed at protecting Serbs during the Bosnian conflict, was found guilty of 10 out of the 11 charges he faced at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 
 
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 Prosecutors said that Karadžić, as political leader and commander-in-chief of Serb forces in Bosnia, was responsible for some the worst acts of brutality during the war, including the 44-month deadly siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave. 
 
 Speaking after the verdicts, Serge Brammertz, the tribunal’s chief prosecutor, said: “Moments like this should also remind us that in innumerable conflicts around the world today, millions of victims are now waiting for their own justice. This judgement shows that it is possible to deliver it.” 
 
 The presiding ICTY judge delivering the ruling, O-Gon Kwon, cleared Karadžić of one charge: responsibility for genocide in attacks on other towns and villages where Croats and Bosnians were driven out. 
 
 On Srebrenica, Kwon said: “On the basis of the totality of the evidence, the [ICTY] finds that the accused shared the expanded common purpose of killing the Bosnian Muslim males of Srebrenica and that he significantly contributed to it.” 
 
 Karadžić was the only person with the power to intervene and protect those being killed, Kwon said. “Far from that,” he said, “the accused ordered Bosnian male detainees to be transferred elsewhere to be killed. With full knowledge of the ongoing killing, Karadžić declared a state of war in Srebrenica.” 
 
 Karadžić’s other convictions were for five counts of crimes against humanity and four of war crimes, including taking UN peacekeepers hostage, deporting civilians, murder and attacks on combatants. 
 
 
 
 During the 100-minute verdict and sentencing, Karadžić sat impassively, not in the dock but on the defence bench, as he opted throughout the five-year trial to act as his own lead counsel. 
 
 He smiled and nodded to one or two familiar faces from the Serb press in the gallery, but hardly glanced at the public gallery, which was packed with survivors and victims’ family members, mostly women grieving lost sons and husbands. They obeyed the tribunal instructions to stay quiet throughout the proceedings, though there was a quiet grunt of disappointment when Karadžić was acquitted of one of the genocide charges. 
 
 The only time Karadžić appeared nervous was when he stood to receive sentence, his arms stiff by his side. His lawyer said he would appeal. 
 
 Outside the tribunal, there was anger that Karadžić did not receive a life sentence. “Is the tribunal not ashamed? Do the Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats not have a right to justice? He got 40 years. That’s not enough,” said Kada Hotic, one of the bereaved mothers from Srebrenica. 
 
 The verdicts are the most significant moment in the 23-year existence of the ICTY, and among the last it will deliver. Set up in 1993, the court has so far indicted 161 suspects. Of those, 80 were convicted and sentenced, 18 acquitted, 13 sent back to local courts and 36 had the indictments withdrawn or died. 
 
 The former psychiatrist and charismatic politician, still with his characteristic bouffant hairstyle, is the most senior Balkans leader to face judgment at the ICTY. The former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević died in his cell in The Hague in 2006 before judges could deliver their verdicts on his trial. 
 
 
 
 Apart from Karadžić, three suspects remain on trial, including his military chief, Ratko Mladić and Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Šešelj. Eight cases are being appealed and two defendants are to face retrials. The judgment in Šešelj’s case is scheduled for next Thursday. 
 
 Karadžić was indicted along with Mladić in 1995 but evaded arrest until he was captured in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2008. At the time he was posing as New Age healer Dr Dragan Dabic, and was disguised by a thick beard and shaggy hair. 
 
 More than 20 years after the guns fell silent in Bosnia, Karadžić is still considered a hero in Serb-controlled parts of the country, and the verdict is unlikely to help reconcile the enduring deep divisions in Bosnia and the region. ||||| (CNN) Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia," was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. 
 
 A special U.N. court in The Hague, Netherlands, found the 70-year-old guilty of genocide over his responsibility for the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed by Bosnian Serb forces under his command. 
 
 Karadzic, former leader of the breakaway Serb Republic in Bosnia, is the highest-ranking political figure to have been brought to justice over the bitter ethnic conflicts that erupted with the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. 
 
 After the verdict, thousands of Serbian ultranationalist supporters of Karadzic took to the streets of Serbian capital of Belgrade, carrying images of the former leader and saying he was being punished for being a Serb. 
 
 On the streets of Belgrade, people voiced mixed reactions to the sentence. 
 
 "He was given 40 years, did not get a life? So it's a disaster," one man said. 
 
 Another said, "They should charge other people, not Radovan Karadzic. He defended Serbian people, sacrificed himself for Serbian people, but authorities in Serbia sent him to Hague." 
 
 Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in a statement that the verdict and sentence "will stand against continuing attempts at denying the suffering of thousands and the crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia." 
 
 "Moments like this should also remind us that in innumerable conflicts around the world today, millions of victims are now waiting for their own justice," he added. "This judgment shows that it is possible to deliver it." 
 
 U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed the verdicts as a "historic" result for the people of the former Yugoslavia and for international criminal justice, while the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said they exposed Karadzic as "the architect of destruction and murder on a massive scale." 
 
 Karadzic, a former psychiatrist, was found guilty of 10 of the 11 charges against him, including extermination, persecution, forcible transfer, terror and hostage taking. 
 
 In a statement, the tribunal said it found Karadzic had committed the crimes through his participation in four "joint criminal enterprises," including an overarching plot from October 1991 to November 1995 "to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from Bosnian Serb-claimed territory." 
 
 The trial was heard by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia -- an ad hoc court the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. 
 
 John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's director for Europe and Central Asia, said the results confirmed Karadzic's "command responsibility for the most serious crimes under international law carried out on European soil since the Second World War." 
 
 The Croatian government hailed the verdicts Thursday -- which came at the end of an eight-year trial -- as welcome but long overdue, calling them "the minimum, for which the victims and their families unfortunately waited too long." 
 
 Genocide in Srebrenica 
 
 In July 1995, tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims had sought refuge in the spa town of Srebrenica -- designated a U.N. "safe area" -- as the Bosnian Serb army marched toward them. 
 
 But with only about 100 lightly equipped Dutch peacekeepers there for protection, the town was overrun by Serb forces. 
 
 Delivering the verdicts, presiding Judge O-Gon Kwon said the tribunal found that about 30,000 Bosnian Muslim women, children and elderly men had been removed to Muslim-held territory by Bosnia Serb forces acting on Karadzic's orders. 
 
 Karadzic's forces then detained the Muslim men and boys in a number of locations before taking them to nearby sites, where they were executed by the thousands. 
 
 The tribunal found that Karadzic was the only person within the Serb Republic with the power to intervene to prevent them being killed, but instead he had personally ordered that detainees be transferred elsewhere to be killed. 
 
 It found he shared with other Bosnian Serb leaders the intent to kill every able-bodied Bosnian Muslim male from Srebrenica -- which amounted "to the intent to destroy the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica," the tribunal said in a statement. 
 
 Civilians targeted in Sarajevo 
 
 Other charges against Karadzic stemmed from the infamous siege of Sarajevo, from 1992 to 1995, during which more than 11,000 people died. 
 
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 The judge said Bosnian Serb forces had consistently and deliberately targeted civilians in Sarajevo, acts that constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity. 
 
 "Sarajevo civilians were sniped while fetching water, walking in the city, and when using public transport. Children were sniped at while playing in front of their houses, walking with their parents or walking home from school," the judge said. 
 
 He said Karadzic was "consistently informed" about the targeting of civilians, had allowed it to intensify and used it to exert pressure in pursuit of his political goals. 
 
 The judge said the sniping attacks on the civilian population, which instilled extreme fear among the city's residents, could not have occurred without Karadzic's support, and the only reasonable inference was that the former Serb leader had intended murder, unlawful attacks on civilians and terror. 
 
 U.N. peacekeepers taken hostage 
 
 The tribunal also found Karadzic guilty of taking U.N. peacekeepers hostage in May and June 1995, with the judge calling him a "driving force" behind a plot to put the hostages in key military and other strategic locations to deter NATO airstrikes on the targets. 
 
 The judge said the U.N. personnel were also threatened during their detention, with the goal of bringing a halt to the strikes altogether. 
 
 Karadzic was found not guilty on one of the counts of genocide, relating to crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Croats in "municipalities" throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina. 
 
 The tribunal found that Serb forces had killed, raped, forcibly displaced and tortured the other ethnic groups in the municipalities, and found Karadzic guilty of persecution, extermination, deportation, forcible transfer and murder in relation to crimes committed there. 
 
 However, the judge said, the court was unable to identify or infer genocidal intent, and therefore couldn't establish beyond a reasonable doubt that genocide had occurred there. 
 
 Bizarre path to justice 
 
 Karadzic, who had denied the charges against him -- blaming any war crimes committed on rogue elements -- has the right to appeal. 
 
 He is also entitled to credit for the time he has spent in custody since his arrest in July 2008. 
 
 His road to The Hague has been a long one, marked by bizarre twists. He went into hiding in 1996 and was not arrested until 12 years later. When he emerged, he was heavily disguised by a white beard, long hair and spectacles. 
 
 Radovan Karadzic used a disguise of a beard and glasses while in hiding. 
 
 Serb officials revealed that Karadzic had been hiding in plain sight -- working in a clinic in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, under a false identity as a "healer." 
 
 He had also managed to publish a book of poetry during his time on the run. 
 
 He was extradited to The Hague to face charges and pleaded not guilty. He initially tried to represent himself, leading to delays in his trial, but eventually was forced to accept an attorney. 
 
 Thursday's verdict comes more than a year after the end of his trial in 2014. The 500-day trial included evidence from 586 witnesses and more than 11,000 exhibits.
– A UN tribunal has found Radovan Karadzic, aka the "Butcher of Bosnia," guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and sentenced the 70-year-old to 40 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found the former Bosnian Serb leader "criminally responsible" for the 3.5-year siege of Sarajevo that killed 12,000 and for the slaying of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, reports the Guardian. The New York Times says the atrocities "were part of the most severe war crimes since World War II." The tribunal has previously convicted and sentenced 80 people; three others are on trial, including Karadzic's military chief. Karadzic had pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including two counts of genocide, noting he had tried to protect Serbs and was a "true friend to Muslims," per the Times. But after a 491-day trial, judge O-Gon Kwon said Thursday that Karadzic was "consistently informed" about Bosnian Serb forces targeting civilians in Sarajevo and "in agreement with the plan of the killings" at Srebrenica, report the BBC and CNN. He was found guilty of all charges but one: a genocide charge related to a campaign to expel Bosnian Muslims and Croats from traditionally-Serb areas. However, he was convicted of persecution, extermination, deportation, forcible transfer, and murder in that case.