Student dorm named after war crimes suspect Radovan

Karadi

Radovan Karadzics daughter Sonja and wife Ljiljana Zelen, and president
of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik attend a ceremonious unveiling of a
plate that says Student Dormitory - Dr Radovan Kadarzic in Pale near
Sarajevo.
Bosnian Serb officials have named a student dorm after wartime leader
Radovan Karadi only days ahead of a Hague-based war crimes court is
expected to find him guilty for his role in the 1990s conflict.
A plate with Karadis name was unveiled by Milorad Dodik, the president
of the Bosnian Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, at a ceremony attended
by several hundred people, including Karadis wife Ljiljana and daughter
Sonja, Bosnian Serb public broadcaster RTRS reported.
We dedicated this place to the man who undoubtedly set the foundation
of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadi, the first president of this
republic, Dodik said at the ceremony in Pale, a Bosnian Serb stronghold
during the bloody 1992-1995 ethnic war.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will on
Thursday announce its verdict in Karadis case.
He is charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for
his role in the war that claimed 100,000 lives and left half of Bosnias fourmillion people homeless.
Dodik, a fierce critic of the ICTY, said the inauguration had strong
symbolism at the moment when the courts highest-profile verdict is due.
They judge only one side, not the others that equally contributed to
everything that happened during the break up of Yugoslavia, Dodik said.
Karadi, 70, had evaded justice for 13 years after the war, but was
eventually arrested in 2008 in Belgrade and extradited to the ICTY, where
he pleaded not guilty.
He was indicted on 11 counts, which include allegations stemming from
the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern
town of Srebrenica and the 44-month-long siege of Sarajevo that claimed
more than 10,000 lives.
The peace agreement that ended the war divided Bosnia into two semiindependent entities, Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
Last week, Karadis lawyer told the Guardian he expected the tribunal to
find his client guilty of war crimes and was planning to launch an appeal
after it delivers its verdict in The Hague.
(The Guardian)