Karadžić to appeal Hague ruling

Radovan Karadžić says he will appeal against the Hague Tribunal’s decision not to integrate his trial with that of Stojan Župljanin.

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Tuesday, 20.01.2009.

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Radovan Karadzic says he will appeal against the Hague Tribunal’s decision not to integrate his trial with that of Stojan Zupljanin. In a motion published at the Hague today, the former Bosnian Serb leader asks for permission to appeal against that decision taken in early January. Karadzic to appeal Hague ruling Zupljanin, the former senior Republic of Srpska (RS) police officer, lodged a similar appeal earlier on. Karadzic is accused of genocide in Srebrenica and other Bosnian municipalities, as well as of crimes against humanity against non-Serbs throughout the republic from 1992-95. Zupljanin, who was based in Banja Luka during the war, is accused of crimes against Muslims and Croats in 1992. He submitted his motion to have the two cases integrated in early December last year on the grounds that large sections of the indictments against him and Karadzic were identical. Zupljanin’s motion was subsequently supported by Karadzic. However, the prosecution and former RS Interior Minister Mico Stanisic, Zupljanin’s co-accused, opposed the motion. They were in agreement that integrating the cases would unnecessarily slow and complicate the case against Zupljanin and Stanisic, which is much closer to trial than the case against Karadzic. In turning down the motion for an integrated trial, the court stated that the indictment against Karadzic was considerably broader and that an integrated trial would not be in the interests of justice, nor of Zupljanin and Stanisic’s defense. The court added that Stanisic had been awaiting trial since 2005 and that integrating the two cases would be unfair to him, given that the Karadzic case was still in its early stages, and the motion to alter the indictment against him had yet to be rubber-stamped. Radovan Karadzic (Beta, archive)

Karadžić to appeal Hague ruling

Župljanin, the former senior Republic of Srpska (RS) police officer, lodged a similar appeal earlier on.

Karadžić is accused of genocide in Srebrenica and other Bosnian municipalities, as well as of crimes against humanity against non-Serbs throughout the republic from 1992-95.

Župljanin, who was based in Banja Luka during the war, is accused of crimes against Muslims and Croats in 1992.

He submitted his motion to have the two cases integrated in early December last year on the grounds that large sections of the indictments against him and Karadžić were identical.

Župljanin’s motion was subsequently supported by Karadžić.

However, the prosecution and former RS Interior Minister Mićo Stanišić, Župljanin’s co-accused, opposed the motion.

They were in agreement that integrating the cases would unnecessarily slow and complicate the case against Župljanin and Stanišić, which is much closer to trial than the case against Karadžić.

In turning down the motion for an integrated trial, the court stated that the indictment against Karadžić was considerably broader and that an integrated trial would not be in the interests of justice, nor of Župljanin and Stanišić’s defense.

The court added that Stanišić had been awaiting trial since 2005 and that integrating the two cases would be unfair to him, given that the Karadžić case was still in its early stages, and the motion to alter the indictment against him had yet to be rubber-stamped.

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