RADOVAN KARADZIC CHARGES TO BE REDUCED TO SPEED UP THE TRIAL

THE INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE FAILS VICTIMS - AGAIN!

From 1992-1995, Serbs from heavily militarized villages around Srebrenica had terrorized Srebrenica population and constantly attacked neighbouring Bosnian Muslim village. In just a few days of July 1995, Serbs committed genocide against the Bosniaks in a U.N. protected enclave of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica genocide resulted in a mass scale ethnic cleansing of 30,000 and a massacre of at least 8,372 Bosniaks. Radovan Karadzic (photo above) is the architect of this genocide.

ACTION ALERT: U.N. Judges have ordered Prosecutors to cut more charges against Radovan Karadzic for the purpose of speeding up the trial. The OTP already reduced charges of Bosnian Genocide from 27 municipalities to only 11. It is unacceptable to cut more charges against the monster responsible for the genocide. If the U.N. Judges are concerned about the length of Karadzic's trial, then they can send him back to Sarajevo and let the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina handle the case. We ask you again to tell the U.N. Judges NOT to drop any more charges against Radovan Karadzic!

The latest scandal with the international justice started when MIKE CORDER accurately reported for The Herald that "the judge preparing Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial... was considering dropping some charges to shorten court proceedings that could take years." His report in The Herald was, for some reason, not dated, but it appeared sometime between June 28 and July 2nd.

Then, the Congress of North American Bosniaks protested this decision with the Court and asked thousands of its members to contact the ICTY and express their concerns to both the Judges and the Prosecutor. The campaign prompted the Office of the Prosecutor to respond on July 8:

"At no point did Judge Bonomy invite the Prosecution to drop the 'Srebrenica or Sarajevo counts' as reported by the media. The Prosecution was told that they may need to start thinking about how to reduce the length of the trial and a number of possibilities were mentioned, including reducing the number of crime sites and not proceeding on certain counts."

Then, on July 22nd, AFP reported that "Judges have ordered prosecutors in the upcoming trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic to try and reduce the charge sheet against him in a bid to speed things up." The story continued:

[QUOTE, AFP] "Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or ICTY, pointed out the indictment covered 11 charges on crimes alleged to have been committed in 27 municipalities - already reduced from an initial 41.

The prosecution intended to call 500 witnesses, with 490 hours needed to examine them in the witness stand. But an order from the court published Thursday said if prosecutors couldn't narrow the charge sheet down, the court would do the job for them.

The U.N. court was initially meant to finish all trials by 2008 and appeals by 2010. The court's most recent estimates suggest its final trial, that of Karadzic, would only conclude in early 2012 while some appeals may run into 2013.

The U.N. Security Council recently prolonged the mandate of some ICTY appeal judges to Dec. 31, 2010.

Karadzic was arrested a year ago on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. A trial date has yet to be set.

Key among the 11 counts against him is the 44-month siege of Sarajevo that left 10,000 people dead, and the July 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Bosnia's inter-ethnic 1992-95 war cost an estimated 100,000 lives." [ END QUOTE]

NOW TAKE ACTION: TELL U.N. JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS NOT TO DROP KEY CHARGES AGAINST RADOVAN KARADZIC. MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR: VISIT OUR CAMPAIGN PAGE! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!