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Karadžic and the UN charges

Fri, Jun 12 2009 10:00 CET byKevin Beck 914 Views
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić has demanded that 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, be dropped due to his claim that former US assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke promised immunity for war crimes prosecution if Karadžić removed himself from public and political life.

Karadžić claims that the deal was made in Belgrade in 1996 and is a valid reason why the United Nations should drop all charges against him.

The UN has said in the past that any agreement would not be binding as Holbrooke does not have legal power over the Hague Tribunal.

As for any "unofficial" official agreement that the US government or Holbrooke would exert, these would have only political status and would not have the legal force for genocide and other charges to be dropped.

Karadžić has displayed other psychotic forms of behaviour such as his poems from the 1970s, denial of responsibility for the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre, and no display of remorse for the killing and deaths he is alleged to have perpetrated during the 1992-1995 genocide and civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 
Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada

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