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Karadzic attorney claims to have evidence of immunity offer from US
Posted on : 2009-05-20 | Author : DPA
News Category : Legal
Amsterdam - An attorney for former Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has
announced that he is prepared to offer evidence that the United States
in 1996 promised his client immunity from prosecution stemming from
atrocities during that decade's Balkan wars. Karadzic's legal advisor,
Peter Robinson, on Wednesday said he would transfer the evidence to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The
Hague on Monday.
Karadzic was arrested in Serbia in July 2008 and is currently standing
trial at the ICTY on charges of war crimes relating to the wars in
Bosnia-Herzegovina after the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Beforehand, Robinson is scheduled to give a press conference at the ICTY
premises. Robinson says he has received evidence from a US source
showing that, in 1996, then US special envoy to the Balkans, Richard
Holbrooke, promised his client immunity from prosecution.
Karadzic has repeatedly referred to a deal with Holbrooke and claimed
that he is, thus, safe from prosecution by the ICTY.
Holbrooke, who is now the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has
always denied such a deal ever existed.
The ICTY, which declined to comment on the upcoming press conference,
says the existence of an agreement on Karadzic's immunity is
"irrelevant" to its ongoing case.
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