Karadzic faces war crimes verdict

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands accused by UN warcrimes judges of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II

Jun 19, 1945: Radovan Karadzicborn in Petnjica village, Yugoslavia(now in Montenegro)

1960s: Moves to ethnically-mixedcity of Sarajevo, where he trains inmedicine, specialising in psychiatry.He also takes up poetry and falls under influence of Serb nationalist writer Dobrica Cosic, who encourages him to enter politics

1989: Collapse of communism in Yugoslavia. Karadzic forms Serbian Democratic Party in response to rise of nationalist and Croat partiesin Bosnia, and dedicated to goal of greater Serbia

1992: Bosnia gains independence.As leader of self-styled Republika Srpska, Karadzic mobilises Bosnian Serbs against Muslim and Croat factions, sparking three-year war

1995: Karadzic indicted, along withhis military chief Ratko Mladic,for alleged war crimes,including role in siege of Sarajevo, in which 10,000 civilians died,and massacre of over 7,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica

1996: Karadzic goes into hiding

2008: Arrested in Belgrade while posing as New Age healer

2009: Trial opens in The Hague

Mar 24, 2016: Verdict due on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity

BOSNIA

CROATIA

50km 30 miles

Muslim- Croat Federation

Republika Srpska

Sarajevo

SERBIA

Srebrenica

MONTE-NEGRO

Source: Wire agencies

Pictures: Associated Press