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Radovan Karadzic Got 40 Years for the Srebrenica Genocide

After hiding in plain sight for years, this Bosnian War criminal’s sentence has made him a symbol for anti-Serb conspiracy theories.

Wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits for the reading of his verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Thursday.

Robin van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images

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On The Gist, the Guardian’s Julian Borger joins us to discuss the International Criminal Court trial of one of the Bosnian War’s main malefactors, Radovan Karadzic. Julian is the author of The Butcher’s Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World’s Most Successful Manhunt. For the Spiel, democracy is a pretty good system, except for all the dummies.

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