Radovan Karadzic, sentenced for Bosnian war crimes, gets appeal hearing Monday
Former Serb leader found responsible for mass killings at Srebrenica in 1990s
The two-day appeal hearing in the case of Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide and war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, will begin on Monday at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
In March 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Karadzic, now 72, of crimes committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Among the offences was the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.
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Karadzic filed an appeal in July 2016 saying his 40-year prison sentence should be overturned or he should be given a "new and fair trial,"claiming the ICTY was biased against him.
Karadzic is the highest-ranking person convicted for the crimes during the bloody conflict in multi-ethnic Bosnia, during which Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosnian fighters fought to carve out ethnically pure statelets by purging other ethnicities.
The conflict was part of a series of wars that accompanied the breakup of federal Yugoslavia into seven successor states. The conflict shocked the world and cost some 130,000 lives.