UN / KARADZIC REAX

The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, acknowledged today’s final appeal judgement by the Hague Branch of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, largely upholding the verdict issued in 2016 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against Radovan Karadzic and increasing his sentence from 40 years to life imprisonment. UNFEED / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:09
• Production Date: 20 March 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA - ICTY
• Subject Topical: GENOCIDE
• Geographic Subject: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• MAMS Id: 2369845
• Parent Id: 2369845
• Alternate Title: unifeed190320f

Description

STORY: UN / KARADZIC REAX
TRT: 01:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 MARCH 2019, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

20 MARCH 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, acknowledged today’s final appeal judgement by the Hague Branch of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, largely upholding the verdict issued in 2016 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against Radovan Karadzic and increasing his sentence from 40 years to life imprisonment.”
4. Med shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Special Adviser Dieng underlined that this appeal judgement confirms that accountability rather than impunity will prevail. Justice alone, however, will not bring genuine reconciliation to communities divided by violence, and it cannot be imposed from the outside.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room

FILE – ICTY - 24 MARCH 2016, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

7. Various shots, Karadzic in courtroom

Storyline

The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, acknowledged today’s (20 Mar) final appeal judgement by the Hague Branch of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, largely upholding the verdict issued in 2016 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against Radovan Karadzic and increasing his sentence from 40 years to life imprisonment.

Speaking to reporters in New York today (20 Mar), UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said, “Special Adviser Dieng underlined that this appeal judgement confirms that accountability rather than impunity will prevail. Justice alone, however, will not bring genuine reconciliation to communities divided by violence, and it cannot be imposed from the outside.”

On 24 March 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Radovan Karadžić, former President of Republika Srpska (RS) and Supreme Commander of its armed forces, of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war committed by Serb forces during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), from 1992 until 1995. He was sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment.