Radovan Karadzic

"We will not allow the (Hague) verdict against Radovan Karadzic to be used against the Serbian people," the Serbian government announced on Friday.

The Serbian government said the verdict convicting Radovan Karadzic must not be used to suggest that all Serbs are collectively guilty, and vowed to keep on supporting fellow Serbs in Bosnia.

Carla del Ponte believes that the Hague Tribunal had to hand down a life in prison sentence to former RS President Radovan Karadzic.

Bosnian politicians traded barbs over the verdict against Radovan Karadzic, with Bosniak officials claiming it was a 'condemnation of his politics', while Serb leaders emphasized that Republika Srpska was not on trial.

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 Radicals (SRS), a party led by Vojislav Seselj, held a rally and a protest walk in downtown Belgrade late 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.

Serbian Radical Party leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj led a rally against NATO and the guilty verdict handed down to former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.

Bosniak war victims said the verdict convicting Radovan Karadzic of genocide and crimes against humanity wasn’t tough enough, while Serb veterans said it was unjust.

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.