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Monday 28 March 2016 - 09:30

The crimes of Karadzic and Srebrenica's haunting legacy

Story Code : 530067
  • Stacks of unidentified corpses line the walls of an underground shelter at a Bosnian morgue in Tuzla, March 1997. The body bags contain victims found in mass graves and wooded areas in Srebrenica. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was found gui

    Stacks of unidentified corpses line the walls of an underground shelter at a Bosnian morgue in Tuzla, March 1997. The body bags contain victims found in mass graves and wooded areas in Srebrenica. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was found gui

  • Bosnian Muslim women, refugees from Srebrenica, pull a child onto a truck before being transported from the eastern Bosnian village of Potocari, July 1995. Radovan Karadzic is the highest-ranking person to face a reckoning before the U.N. tribunal in The

    Bosnian Muslim women, refugees from Srebrenica, pull a child onto a truck before being transported from the eastern Bosnian village of Potocari, July 1995. Radovan Karadzic is the highest-ranking person to face a reckoning before the U.N. tribunal in The

  • A man yells for help minutes after a Serb shell hit a crowded pedestrian walkway in Sarajevo, May 1993. Radovan Karadzic, a 70-year-old former psychiatrist, still in robust health, is the most senior political figure to be convicted by the International

    A man yells for help minutes after a Serb shell hit a crowded pedestrian walkway in Sarajevo, May 1993. Radovan Karadzic, a 70-year-old former psychiatrist, still in robust health, is the most senior political figure to be convicted by the International

  • Bodies of Muslims killed during the exodus from Srebrenica discovered by the Hague war crimes tribunal experts are seen in a grave near the eastern Bosnian village of Nova Kasaba, July 1996. The Srebrenica massacre and the years-long Serb siege of Bosnia

    Bodies of Muslims killed during the exodus from Srebrenica discovered by the Hague war crimes tribunal experts are seen in a grave near the eastern Bosnian village of Nova Kasaba, July 1996. The Srebrenica massacre and the years-long Serb siege of Bosnia

  • Muslim refugees in an overloaded UNHCR truck during evacuation from besieged Srebrenica, March 1993. On July 11, 1995, towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serb forces swept into the eastern Srebrenica enclave, a U.N.-designated

    Muslim refugees in an overloaded UNHCR truck during evacuation from besieged Srebrenica, March 1993. On July 11, 1995, towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serb forces swept into the eastern Srebrenica enclave, a U.N.-designated "safe heaven"

  • A group of Muslim refugees from Srebrenica walk to be transported from the eastern Bosnian village of Potocari, July 1995.

    A group of Muslim refugees from Srebrenica walk to be transported from the eastern Bosnian village of Potocari, July 1995.

  • Around 10,000 refugees from Srebrenica are seen boarding buses at a camp outside the U.N. base at Tuzla Airport, July 1995.

    Around 10,000 refugees from Srebrenica are seen boarding buses at a camp outside the U.N. base at Tuzla Airport, July 1995.

  • Bosnian refugees from Srebrenica wail over their missing men in the refugee camp at the Tuzla airport, July 1995.

    Bosnian refugees from Srebrenica wail over their missing men in the refugee camp at the Tuzla airport, July 1995.

  • People look for wounded outside of the indoor market at the site of a mortar blast in the center of Sarajevo that killed some 40 people, August 28, 1995.

    People look for wounded outside of the indoor market at the site of a mortar blast in the center of Sarajevo that killed some 40 people, August 28, 1995.

  • Rifka Levi, who spent part of World War Two in concentration camps in Croatia and Serbia, weeps as she waves goodbye to friends as she starts the journey that will take her to Jerusalem, June 1993.

    Rifka Levi, who spent part of World War Two in concentration camps in Croatia and Serbia, weeps as she waves goodbye to friends as she starts the journey that will take her to Jerusalem, June 1993.

  • An elderly woman carries her belongings in Sarajevo's war shattered airport settlement, November 1995.

    An elderly woman carries her belongings in Sarajevo's war shattered airport settlement, November 1995.

  • U.N. investigators search near a place believed to contain the bodies of Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serbs forces after the fall of Srebrenica, April 1996.

    U.N. investigators search near a place believed to contain the bodies of Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serbs forces after the fall of Srebrenica, April 1996.

  • People walk through a forest near the village of Liplje, about 150 km (93 miles) from the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 8, 2015. Several thousand people started a 85 km (53 mile) march from Nezuk to Srebrenica called the

    People walk through a forest near the village of Liplje, about 150 km (93 miles) from the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 8, 2015. Several thousand people started a 85 km (53 mile) march from Nezuk to Srebrenica called the "March of Peace"

  • Fadila Efendic prays near memorial plaques at the Potocari genocide memorial center near Srebrenica, March 18, 2015.

    Fadila Efendic prays near memorial plaques at the Potocari genocide memorial center near Srebrenica, March 18, 2015.

  • A Bosnian Muslim man cries near where 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre are placed, in Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica, July 10, 2014.

    A Bosnian Muslim man cries near where 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre are placed, in Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica, July 10, 2014.

  • Bosnian Muslims write

    Bosnian Muslims write "Welcome to Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina" at the wall of a war damaged house July 10, 2005 in the village of Gornji Potocari only a few hundred meters from a memorial center for Srebrenica victims.

  • A girl holding a flower crouches by the side of a road, as she waits with others for a truck carrying 173 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in front of the presidential building in Sarajevo July 9, 2014.

    A girl holding a flower crouches by the side of a road, as she waits with others for a truck carrying 173 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in front of the presidential building in Sarajevo July 9, 2014.

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