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Karadzic: Prosecution amends indictment

Radovan Karadzic

23 September 2008  The Hague prosecution has amended the indictment against the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs by adding certain counts, and removing others.

The amended indictment charges Radovan Karadzic, in two separate counts, for Genocide in 10 municipalities and Srebrenica, and additionally charges him for a joint criminal enterprise, which was not part of the previous indictment.

At the same time, instead of crimes in 41 municipalities, he is charged with crimes committed in 27 municipalities during the war, but the indictment now describes in detail the destruction of Sarajevo, certain detention centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as destruction of cultural and religious objects.

The Hague prosecution sent the amended indictment to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on the 23^rd of September.

The prosecution has left out the part of the indictment which charges Karadzic for complicity in Genocide, while the Genocide count was divided into two separate counts – one for Genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, and a separate count for Genocide committed in ten municipalities during 1992.

The indictment lists the municipalities of Bratunac, Brcko, Foca, Kljuc, Kotor Varos, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Visegrad, Vlasenica and Zvornik as places where Genocide took place. Karadzic is also charged with "spreading terror, unlawful attacks on civilians and murders" in Sarajevo committed during a “campaign of sniping and shelling.”  

“From October 1991 until November 1995. Radovan Karadzic took part in an overarching joint criminal enterprise aimed at the permanent removal of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from territories in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” states the indictment.

As participants of the joint criminal enterprise, the indictment lists, among others  Slobodan Milosevic (died in a detention cell in the Hague), Ratko Mladic (still at large), Momcilo Mandic (handed a first instance verdict which acquitted him of charges for crimes in Sarajevo and Foca by the BiH State Court), Vojsilav Seselj (currently on trial at the Hague) as well as "leaders of Bosnian Serbs, Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs units, Yugoslav peoples Army units, Republika Srpska military forces and the Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence".
The first indictment against Radovan Karadzic, along with Mladic, was raised by prosecutor Richard Goldstone first in July and then in November 1995, and it contains 36 counts. After that, in April 2000, prosecutor Carla Del Ponte connected these two indictments into one, which has 11 counts, and separated the indictments of the military and civil leadership of the Bosnian Serbs.

After these changes in the indictment Radovan Karadzic has the right to reenter his plea.