The top international authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a three-month deadline for the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska to annul honours given to Radovan Karadzic and others convicted of war crimes.
Radovan Karadzic’s lawyer said the UN court has not yet taken any action against the former Bosnian Serb leader and genocide convict after he addressed a public debate in Montenegro by phone from prison.
A draft law that would have provided benefits to wartime Bosnian Serb politicians including several convicted war criminals and Hague Tribunal defendant Radovan Karadzic has been withdrawn.
If a new law on the rights of Republika Srprska representatives who served from 1991-1996 is adopted, three war crime convicts and a war crime suspect will receive payments from the budget of Republika Srpska.
Former Bosnian Serb parliament speaker and Hague convict Momcilo Krajisnik told BIRN that he has struggled to live with being labelled a war criminal, and wants to clear his name.
By presenting statements by three Defence witnesses, former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic tried to deny the existence of a plan for the forced persecution of Muslims and Croats from Bosanska Krajina, which is charged upon him.
On the fifth day of his testimony at Radovan Karadzics trial witness Momcilo Krajisnik says that ethnic cleansing was not the policy of Bosnian Serb leaders, as alleged under the indictment.
Testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial, Defence witness Momcilo Krajisnik denies that Serb political leaders were guilty of the bombing of Sarajevo, adding that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, just responded to fire opened from the city.
While cross-examining Defence witness Momcilo Krajisnik, The Hague Prosecution tries to prove that the Bosnian Serbs political leadership, led by indictee Radovan Karadzic set six strategic goals for the Army. Forced separation from Bosniaks and Croats was the first one of those goals.
Former President of the Republika Srpska Parliament Momcilo Krajisnik testifies at Radovan Karadzics trial and denies that Serb forces committed ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.