Karadzic to spend rest of life behind bars
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UN judges have increased the sentence of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, 73, to life in prison
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Jun 19, 1945: Radovan Karadzic born in Petnjica village, Yugoslavia (now in Montenegro)

1960s: Moves to ethnically-mixed city of Sarajevo, where he trains in medicine, 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 parties in 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 with his 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
 
2016: Sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty on 10 counts of genocide, war crimes and other atrocities, including planning Srebrenica massacre
   
Mar 20, 2019: UN appeals judges uphold convictions and increase sentence from 40 years to life imprisonment
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