Gordana Zivkovic, 1995. Courtesy of Marko ZivkovicThe former President of the Republic of Srpska para-state, Radovan Karadzic, was recently convicted of a joint criminal enterprise and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990s, including the siege of Sarajevo, the campaign of ethnic cleansing, mass killings and detention of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, and the kidnapping of UN peacekeepers in order to prevent the NATO bombing of the Serb positions. He was also found guilty of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
During 4 years of fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, over 100,000 people lost their lives. Its capital, Sarajevo, endured 1,425 days of siege at the cost of 10,541 lives of its citizens, including lives of 1,601 children.
The conviction rested on a mountain of evidence proving the existence of genocidal intent on the political level in the case of Srebrenica. Radovan Karadzic’s court file alone is almost 35,000 pages long and includes documents produced by the Parliament of the Republic of Srpska and its Ministry of Interior as well as a number of local police precincts.
