How Radovan Karadzic’s legacy lives on

The man who planned Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 has become an iconic figure among rightwing extremists

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A Serb protester holds up a photo of Radovan Karadzic
(Image credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs has had his sentence for war crimes increased to life in prison, more than two decades on from the worst post-WWII atrocity in Europe.

A UN tribunal in The Hague found Radovan Karadzic, now 73, guilty of genocide and handed him a 40-year sentence in 2016.

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