Karadzic found guilty of Bosnia war crimes and Srebrenica genocide

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years in jail after being convicted of genocide and war crimes during the 1992-95 war.

Karadzic has been found guilty by United Nations judges in The Hague of 10 of 11 charges brought against him.

The 70-year-old’s case is considered one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two as he is the most senior political figure to face judgement over the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Karadzic represented himself in the trial which lasted eight years.

He was found guilty on one count of genocide in relation to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre by Bosnian Serb forces of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

However, he was found not guilty on another genocide charge to killings in several Bosnian municipalities.

He was found guilty on five charges on crimes against humanity relating to the siege and shelling of the city of Sarajevo over several years which left nearly 12,000 people dead.

The rest of the charges he was found guilty of related to violations of the laws or customs of war. At least 100,000 people died during fighting in the Bosnian war.

The court heard that he was guilty of orchestrating a campaign known as "ethnic cleansing" of non-Serbs from the territory of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic.