Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will on Wednesday hear the final judgment on his role in the bloody conflict that tore his country apart a quarter of a century ago.
In one of the last remaining cases from the break-up of Yugoslavia, UN judges in The Hague will rule on his appeal against his 2016 conviction for genocide and war crimes, and his 40-year sentence.
Once the most powerful Bosnian Serb political figure, Karadzic, now 73, was notorious for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst bloodletting on European soil since World War II.
Around 100,000 people eventually died and 2.2 million others were left homeless in the brutal three-year war that pitted Muslims, Serbs and Croats against each other.
"I think this verdict is historical for justice," Munira Subasic of the Mothers of Srebrenica victims' association told AFP, adding that they wanted Karadzic to get a full life sentence.
"If Karadzic does not get what he deserves it means that there is no justice in this world and that it is possible to commit crimes without risking penalties."
The ruling is due to start at 1300 GMT at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which deals...
