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The fate of key figures from Balkan wars The Hague, June 6 (AFP) Jun 06, 2021 As judges in The Hague rule Tuesday on an appeal by Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic against his war crimes convictions, we look at the fate of the key players in the 1990s Balkan wars, which claimed more than 100,000 lives.
Convicted of genocide and war crimes over the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre among other crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2017. - Hashim Thaci, 52, was forced to quit as Kosovo president in November to also face war crimes charges in The Hague tribunal. The former leader of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army, who called himself "The Snake", denies murder, torture, persecution and crimes related to the 1998-99 conflict with Serbia.
His appeal hearing opened in April 2018 and in March 2019 his sentence was increased to life in prison. The judges later threw out a last-ditch attempt for a renewed appeal, saying it had "no legal basis". Karadzic is behind bars at the UN's high-security detention unit in The Hague. The genocide conviction arose from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia in which almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered. Karadzic evaded capture for 13 years until he was arrested in 2008 on a Belgrade bus masquerading as a New Age healer.
She was granted early release in 2009.
As he had already spent almost 12 years in detention, he remained free. An ally of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the court found Seselj was behind the murder of Croats, Muslims and other non-Serbs, as well as mass forced deportations.
He was acquitted on appeal in 2012.
He was accused of fuelling ethnic conflict and mass murder in the former Yugoslavia during his 13-year rule.
The Hague tribunal said he would have been indicted for war crimes had he lived.
He was gunned down aged 47 in January 2000 in a Belgrade hotel.
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