Kurt Kamrath
Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader, is claiming that he was guaranteed immunity in 1996 by Richard Holbrooke. At the time Holbrooke was the top American diplomat in Bosnia and is currently the US envoy the Pakistan and Afghanistan. Karadzic claimed that an agreement was reached granting him immunity so long as he removed himself from any public office. Karadzic was arrested last year and is being charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) with genocide and crimes against humanity. His lawyers filed a motion for dismissal on Monday, and they are seeking a special hearing to establish the truth of Karadzic's claims. Holbrooke denies that any agreement was ever reached, but Karadzic has the former Bosnian Serb foreign minister and assembly leader on hand as witnesses of the agreement. However, the tribunal has already stated that any immunity agreement between Karadzic and the US is not binding on the ICTY.
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