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The blood of 20,000: the genocide charges Radovan Karadzic faces

Updated on 22 July 2008

By Nick Paton Walsh

Radovan Karadzic is accused of the most heinous crimes against humanity, from the siege of Sarajevo to the Srebrenica massacre.

He is charged with having the blood of 20,000 lives on his hands and of bringing an entire country down by ethnic hatred.

Today relatives of the thousands of victims said they had been waiting for this moment of justice for 13 years.

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