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Ex-Bosnian Serb leader sentenced to life in 1995 genocide at Srebrenica
The judgement in the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals at The Hague, Netherlands, brings to a close the legal odyssey of 73-year-old Radovan Karadžić.
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The judgement in the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals at The Hague, Netherlands, brings to a close the legal odyssey of 73-year-old Radovan Karadžić.
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