Call to speed up Karadzic trial

Judges in The Hague hit asked prosecutors to encounter structure to pace up the sociable kill effort of ex-Bosnian Serb cheater Radovan Karadzic.

They poverty the continuation to turn the calculate artefact against the 64-year-old.

If the continuation fails to do so, the war crimes suite could do the job for them, an visit from the judges says.

Mr Karadzic faces 11 charges. The continuation currently intends to call whatever 500 witnesses, and estimates it module need 490 hours to investigate them.

Mr Karadzic was inactive and brought to the International Criminal Tribunal for the past Jugoslavija (ICTY) last year, after more than a decade in hiding.

Not guilty plea

The stylish order, subscribed by Presiding Judge Iain Bonomy, asks prosecutors to propose structure "in which the orbit of the effort haw be reduced".

"Should the continuation not wage resource in identifying specific counts and/or crime sites or incidents... the Chamber haw mend the crimes sites and/or incidents itself," it says.

THE INDICTMENT

• Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and another atrocities
• Charged over shelling Bosnia during the city's siege, in which whatever 12,000 civilians died
• Allegedly union the murder of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica
• Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals
• Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity
• Destroyed homes, businesses and unnameable sites

Crime sites, in this case, are the individual incidents that support to make up digit or more of the 11 charges against Mr Karadzic.

The judges noted that the charges cover crimes that are alleged to hit occurred in 27 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina as substantially as Srebrenica and Sarajevo.

Mr Karadzic is accused of kill over the murder of up to 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) at Srebrenica in 1995, and is also charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The suite filed a not guilty appeal on his behalf after he refused to substance a plea, saying the suite lacked jurisdiction.

The ICTY was originally due to hit ended all trials by 2008 and appeals by 2010.

The suite today estimates that the Karadzic effort haw not conclude until primeval 2012, with whatever appeals streaming into 2013.
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