\n Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, currently behind bars in The Hague, will serve the rest of his sentence for the Srebrenica genocide in a British prison, the government in London said Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"We should take pride in the fact that, from UK support to secure his arrest, to the prison cell he now faces, Britain has supported the 30-year pursuit of justice for these heinous crimes,\" Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said as he announced the prison transfer.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide,\" added Raab.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"He was responsible for the massacre of men, women and children at the Srebrenica genocide and helped prosecute the siege of Sarajevo with its remorseless attacks on civilians.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The UN's International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals on Wednesday confirmed that it had asked Britain to \"enforce the sentence of Karadzic\".\n<\/p>\n
\n It also requested that \"all necessary measures\" be taken \"to facilitate Karadzic's transfer to the United Kingdom as expeditiously as possible\".\n<\/p>\n
\n However, no date has yet been given for when the transfer will take place.\n<\/p>\n
\n Individuals convicted of crimes by tribunals in The Hague do not serve their sentences in the UN detention facilities in the city, and have a deal with member states, who take them instead.\n<\/p>\n
\n - 'Systematic cruelty' -\n<\/p>\n
\n Raab was a legal adviser in Britain's embassy in the Hague between 2003 and 2006, and negotiated the 2004 deal that is being used to transfer Karadzic, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n<\/p>\n
\n Karadzic is serving a life sentence for genocide in Srebrenica and other atrocities after appeals judges increased his sentence from an original jail term of 40 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a few days after capturing the town in eastern Bosnia on July 11, 1995.\n<\/p>\n
\n The episode -- labelled as genocide by two international courts -- came at the end of a 1992-1995 war between Bosnia's Croats, Muslims and Serbs that claimed some 100,000 lives.\n<\/p>\n
\n Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic were among the last suspects put on trial by the UN tribunal in The Hague for the civil war.\n<\/p>\n
\n Appeals judges in 2019 increased Karadzic's sentence, saying the initial jail term had underestimated the \"sheer scale and systematic cruelty\" of his crimes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Britain in 2013 took Liberian ex-warlord Charles Taylor after he lost his appeal against a 50-year sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the UN's Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague.\n<\/p>\n
\n Taylor is serving his term at Frankland maximum security prison just outside Durham in northeastern England after being convicted of fuelling civil conflict in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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