War crimes judges to rule on Krajisnik appeal

The former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament will hear today if United Nations judges will overturn his conviction for orchestrating ethnic cleansing campaigns that killed thousands of Muslims and Croats.

The appeals verdict for Momcilo Krajisnik at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the Hague in the Netherlands, will take into account the testimony of Radovan Karadzic, his political mentor and former Bosnian Serb leader, who appeared before the judges shortly after his own arrest following 13 years as the court’s most wanted fugitive.