Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia's political and ethnic divisions were on display once again after the ICTY convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and crimes against humanity and jaild him for 40 years on Thursday.

The conviction of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic must not affect the fate of the Serb Republic (RS), Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Thursday.

He urged all political representatives of the Serb people in Bosnia-Herzegovina to fight for the Serb entity in Bosnia and their people.

A UN court has sentenced Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in jail after finding the former Bosnian Serb leader guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and on nine other war crime charges.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N. judges who found him found guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, as well as on nine other war crimes charges. 

The Hague Tribunal has found Radovan Karadzic guilty and sentenced him to 40 years in prison in the first-instance verdict announced on Thursday.

The tribunal found the former president of the Serb Republic (RS) in Bosnia guilty of individual responsibility for crimes against humanity, and murders and violations of the laws and customs of war in seven municipalities.

Some of around 250 representatives of Bosnian war victims' associations who travelled to the UN court for Karadzic's verdict told BIRN on Thursday that they wanted him to be punished.

Months ahead of important local elections, Milorad Dodik, President of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity and leader of its main ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, has outraged Bosniaks [Bosnian Muslims] and Bosnian Serbs alike by naming a student dorm after the Bosnian Serb war-crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

A citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina who fought in the ranks of Islamist paramilitary groups has been arrested in Sarajevo on charges of terrorism.

The Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina confirmed this on Thursday.

The decision of the authorities of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, not to consider people who do not work or study as permanent residents may have a major impact on Bosnia's demographic profile, experts claim.

A study released on Tuesday says coal-fired power plants in the Balkans cost people and governments in Europe as much as 8.5 billion euros a year in health terms and the Balkan region alone 1.2 to 3.4 billion euros.