Genocide charge of Karadzic reinstated

The genocide charge against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been reinstated at the UN Yugoslavian war crimes tribunal at The Hague. The Council of Appeal gathered under the presidency of Theodor Meron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and evaluated the objection by the prosecutor to the previous verdict on Karadzic. The Council of Appeal decided Karadzic to be put on trial for charge of genocide in seven other municipalities other than Srebrenica and Bosnia-Herzegovina, meaning that he now faces 11 charges, including an initial charge of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II. Karadzic is charged with genocide in relation to the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, during which more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces.