Karadzic acquitted of 1 genocide count

Judges announced on Thursday that prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support the charge covering expulsions, mass killings and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats in Bosnian towns early in the country’s 1992-95 war.

However, judges refused to dismiss ten other charges including one further charge of genocide covering Karadzic’s involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Earlier this month, Karadzic asked the tribunal judges to dismiss the charges against him, claiming prosecutors had failed to prove the charges and it had not been proven that the forces under his command committed genocide in Srebrenica.

The 67-year-old was arrested on a bus in Belgrade in July 2008, 13 years after he was first indicted for ordering atrocities during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

Karadzic is charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges against him include his alleged role in leading a brutal campaign against Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1996 and the years-long siege and bombing of Sarajevo.

He is also accused of involvement in the forcible removal and murder of thousands of Croatian civilians during Dalj massacre, Erdut massacre, and Lovas massacre between 1991 and 1993.

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