(20 Mar 2019) Bosnian Serbs in Pale on Wednesday condemned the verdict which put their wartime leader to jail for the rest of his life.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, one of the chief architects of the slaughter and devastation of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, had originally been sentenced to 40 years in jail.
But at a hearing at The Hague on Wednesday the sentence was increased to life imprisonment, as United Nations appeals judges upheld his convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Reflecting upon the verdict, Pale resident Gradimir Miladinovic described it as a "complete injustice for Serbs".
Karadzic has been convicted of genocide for the killing of the 8,000 boys and men in the small town of Srebrenica, and was also convicted of other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 war that killed some 100,000 people.
The appeals judges on Wednesday ruled that the 40-year prison sentence Karadzic received in 2016 wasn't adequate.
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