ICTY / KARADZIC

In his closing argument in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the prosecutor said he was a “driving force behind the genocidal campaign to rid Bosnia of its non-Serbian population.” ICTY

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:01
• Production Date: 29 September 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; LAW; CRIMES; CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• Geographic Subject: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• MAMS Id: 1188029

Description

STORY: ICTY / KARADZIC
TRT: 1.01
SOURCE: ICTY
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 29 SEPTEMBER 2014, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

Shotlist

1.Wide shot, court’s chamber
2.Med shot, Karadzic and lawyers
3.Close up, Karadzic
4.Close up, judge
5.Med shot, panel
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Tieger, Senior Prosecuting Trial Attorney at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia:
“Your honors, in August of 1992, when one Bosnian-Muslim or Bosnian-Croat community after another was being destroyed or terrorized the ICRC president explained what the world by that time already knew:”Let me give you a sad picture; the civilian population is systematically harassed, thousands of civilians are arrested in their homes, brutalized or even killed. Whole minority groups comprising tens of thousands of civilians are systematically transferred by force.”
7.Wide shot, chamber

Storyline

In his closing argument in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the prosecutor said he was a “driving force behind the genocidal campaign to rid Bosnia of its non-Serbian population.”

Prosecutor Alan Tieger told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that Karadzic had at the time boasted of his intentions to wipe out the non-Serb population.

The prosecutors are seeking maximum penalty of life imprisonment for Karadzic for war crimes committed during the civil war in Bosnia in 1992-1995.

The judge has allocated ten hours for each party’s closing argument.

Karadzic, who is defending himself, will present his closing argument on Wednesday. He rejects the court, arguing that it is a tool of the NATO military alliance.

Initially indicted on 25 July 1995, Radovan Karadžić is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

He was transferred into the Tribunal’s custody on 30 July 2008 and his trial commenced on 26 October 2009.

Since its establishment, the Tribunal has indicted 161 persons for serious violations of humanitarian law committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. Proceedings against 141 persons have been concluded.