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Article: Karadzic a no-show as his trial on ethnic-cleansing charges begins.(WORLD)(Radovan Karadzic)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 27, 2009
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Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
The Hague -- The Bosnia genocide case against Radovan Karadzic opened Tuesday in what may be the most important remaining case tried by the 13-year old special tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, according to many jurists.
More than 6,000 days after Serb snipers opened fire April 5, 1992 from atop the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo on a peace march, killing a medical student from Dubrovnik - the first casualty of Bosnia's war - prosecutors accused the former Bosnian Serb president of ordering the shot that helped set the Balkans alight in the 1990s.
Speaking quietly but clearly ...