Indictee as a Liar and Mafioso

“Karadzic is not a construction inspector. He did not say: ‘This terrain is not suitable for construction.’ He is a mafioso, who used to say: ‘Do not build or else I will be forced to destroy it.’ He knew which force to use,” Prosecutor Tieger said, speaking about the indictee’s genocidal intention. Presenting his closing statement at Karadzic’s trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, the Prosecutor said that the indictee was responsible for the forced resettlement of the non-Serb population in BiH. “Hundreds of witnesses and pieces of evidence confirmed the policy of ethnic cleansing to which Karadzic was a driving force … He was a liar for international representatives. He presented false stories in the courtroom,” Tieger said.He described individual examples of murders – people killed by snipers in Sarajevo, executed in Srebrenica and prisoners killed in detention camps in Prijedor.“These tragedies are linked to one of the four joint criminal enterprises, which were used for eliminating Bosniak Muslims with the aim of achieving a Serb state,” Tieger said. Speaking about the crimes committed in Prijedor, the Prosecutor described the horrible conditions in Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje detention camps. “Detainees were brutally beaten up on their way to the restaurant or toilet. Women, who were held in Omarska, used to clean tissue and human blood during the day and were raped during the night. Detainees lived in constant fear from death. Of them 180 were killed on one occasion,” Tieger said.In his closing statement he mentioned Zvornik, as an example of the brutal taking over of authority and a place where civilians were arrested, abused and killed. “Members of reserve police used to guard the Cultural Centre in Celopek. Detainees had to eat cut body parts. Many were raped as well,” Tieger said.He said that the crimes were not aimed against individuals, but against “the unwanted community”, which is a correct name for genocide. It is planned that the Prosecutor will present his closing statement for ten hours.