波黑塞族前領導人卡拉季奇被判40年

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The atrocities during the war have been described as the worst crimes committed in Europe since World War Two.

近日，前波黑塞族共和國領導人拉多萬·卡拉季奇在1992至1995年波斯尼亞戰爭期間犯下的種族滅絕罪和反人類罪正式宣告成立。該戰爭期間的暴行被形容爲自二戰以來在歐洲犯下的最嚴重的罪行。

At a UN tribunal in The Hague, judges found him guilty of 10 out of 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, including leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Croats.

在海牙聯合國法庭，法官認定他犯有11項種族滅絕罪、戰爭罪、危害人類罪，以及在20世紀90年代的波黑戰爭中其他暴行的10項罪名，其中包括領導了針對數千名波斯尼亞穆斯林和克羅地亞人的屠殺。

One count of genocide related to the massacre of more than 7,500 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995, which the UN said was part of a campaign to "terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population".

其中一項罪名是，1995年7月在斯雷布雷尼察飛地對7500餘名穆斯林男子和男孩的種族滅絕，被聯合國稱爲“恐嚇和瓦解波斯尼亞穆斯林和波斯尼亞克族人口”運動的一部分。

The trial was a weighty affair - lasting five years, followed by an additional 18-month deliberation by the bench.

該審判是一個重大的事件——前後持續了五年，隨後又增加了額外18個月的法官審議。

He was sentenced to 40 years in prison - though his lawyer has indicated he will appeal. The former Bosnian Serb leader was also found guilty of orchestrating the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.

卡拉季奇被判處有期徒刑40年——儘管他的律師已表示將提出上訴。這位前波黑塞族領導人也因策劃炮擊薩拉熱窩，以及於1995年5月份和6月份使用284名聯合國維和人員作爲肉盾被判有罪。

Radovan Karadzic spent 13 years on the run before being handed over to the tribunal.

據悉，拉多萬·卡拉季奇在外逃13年後被移交法庭。

He had been found living in disguise in Belgrade, under a false name and working as a New Age healer. He had even become well-known on the alternative health circuit, reportedly publishing a column in Healthy Living magazine.

他曾被發現住在貝爾格萊德，用假名並以新式醫療爲職業僞裝自己。他甚至在另類醫療界成名，據報道，他還在《健康生活》雜誌發表專欄。