{"id":1430,"date":"2020-04-23T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/?page_id=1430"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T08:31:06","slug":"karadzic-told-no-retrial-prepare-for-defence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/karadzic-told-no-retrial-prepare-for-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Karadzic Told No Retrial, Prepare for Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This IWPR report\u00a0inadvertently exposes the endless duplicity of the ICTY. \u00a0As you&#8217;ll see below, presiding judge<\/i>\u00a0<em>O-Gon Kwon concedes that the prosecution had failed to make statutory disclosure to the defence, but then expresses the judges&#8217; view &#8211; which can only, at very best, be a guess &#8211; that this &#8220;did not damage the defence case to the extent that a retrial would be necessary&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-node-extras-panel-pane-6 story-cluster\">\n<div class=\"view view-node-extras view-id-node_extras view-display-id-panel_pane_6 view-dom-id-059c617016079b415629993df029e90b\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"story-title subgroup\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwpr.net\/subgroup\/courtside\">COURTSIDE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Karadzic Told No Retrial, Prepare for Defence<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">Defendant\u2019s bid to halt current proceedings rejected.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">By Velma \u0160ari\u0107<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-gv-multimedia-panel-pane iwpr-node-images\">\n<div class=\"view view-gv-multimedia view-id-gv_multimedia view-display-id-panel_pane view-dom-id-f55a41f4f9bedefb4da800ce8c60e970\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div id=\"flexslider-1\" class=\"flexslider optionset-slideshow flexslider-processed\">\n<div class=\"flex-viewport\">\n<ul class=\"slides\">\n<li class=\"clone\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div>\n<div><img draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/iwpr.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_focal_590\/public\/migrate\/icty_karadzic_judges.jpg?itok=97FAx9j3\" alt=\"ICTY trial chamber in the Karadzic case, presided over by Judge O-Gon Kwon (top, middle). (Photo: ICTY)\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/iwpr.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_focal_590\/public\/migrate\/icty_karadzic_judges.jpg?itok=97FAx9j3\" alt=\"ICTY trial chamber in the Karadzic case, presided over by Judge O-Gon Kwon (top, middle). (Photo: ICTY)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-story-image-1\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">ICTY trial chamber in the Karadzic case, presided over by Judge O-Gon Kwon (top, middle). (Photo: ICTY)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>Hague tribunal judges this week dismissed a request for a retrial made by wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and ordered him to submit a revised list of defence witnesses by September 14.<\/p>\n<p>Karadzic requested a fresh trial on August 13, claiming that the prosecution had committed \u201cnumerous\u201d violations of the rules of disclosure and had thereby made the current proceedings unfair. (See\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iwpr.net\/report-news\/karadzic-requests-new-trial\">Karadzic Requests New Trial<\/a><\/strong>.) This week, however, the trial chamber presided over by Judge O-Gon Kwon ruled that the disclosure issues did not damage the defence case to the extent that a retrial would be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the violation of the obligation to share evidence with the defence has put the prosecution in a bad light, the chamber failed to conclude that the accused had suffered damage from this violation&#8221;, Judge Kwon said at this week\u2019s status conference.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the chamber found that Karadzic\u2019s request for retrial was not &#8220;legally founded&#8221; and that the trial had been fair from the outset.<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues discussed at this week\u2019s status conference in the case was the defendant\u2019s request to bring 600 defence witnesses and to be granted 300 hours for their testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>The trial chamber told Karadzic, who is representing himself, that he should significantly reduce the number of witnesses he intends to call, and focus only on those who would be able to support his defence case.<\/p>\n<p>The judges told Karadzic it was unnecessary to call on witnesses whose testimonies relate to events in municipalities that are not listed in the indictment against him, such as Bosanski Brod, Bosanska Gradiska, Ljubinje, Kupres, Vakuf and others.<\/p>\n<p>Karadzic replied that he did not agree with this, and that he had &#8220;obviously misunderstood parts of or even the entire indictment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are telling me that it&#8217;s not important for [my defence] to establish the historical context [and] who started the war?\u201d he asked. Since the prosecution insists that the joint criminal enterprise existed since the autumn of 1991, if not even since 1990, it is very important to demonstrate what was really happening [at that time], regardless of whether crimes occurred in these municipalities or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kwon recommended that Karadzic consult with his legal advisors so that he could &#8220;understand what was actually meant by the indictment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Karadzic informed judges that he would probably testify in his own defence, and that he would require 30 hours for that testimony alone.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kwon replied that a statement by the defendant would &#8220;carry more weight if it were delivered at the beginning of the defence case&#8221;, rather then in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p>Karadzic replied that his opening statement, for which he will be given 90 minutes, would &#8220;not be connected in any way to his actual testimony\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The judges informed Karadzic that he must submit a revised witness list by September 14. His defence case is to start on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution alleges that Karadzic, who was president of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996, is responsible for crimes of genocide, persecution, extermination, murder and forcible transfer which \u201ccontributed to achieving the objective of the permanent removal of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from Bosnian Serb-claimed territory\u201d, including the planning and overseeing of major crimes such as the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, in which over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Velma Saric is an IWPR-trained reporter in Sarajevo.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This IWPR report\u00a0inadvertently exposes the endless duplicity of the ICTY. \u00a0As you&#8217;ll see below, presiding judge\u00a0O-Gon Kwon concedes that the prosecution had failed to make statutory disclosure to the defence, but then expresses the judges&#8217; 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