Judges warn slow pace of Karadzic genocide trial could spell 2 years extra, verdict in 2014

Judges: Karadzic trial could take extra 2 years

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges are warning that Radovan Karadzic’s genocide trial could take up to two years longer than expected if prosecutors and the former Bosnian Serb leader do not speed up the case.

Yugoslav war crimes tribunal judges said at the start of the trial they expected to deliver verdicts at the end of 2012.

However Presiding judge O-Gon Kwon said Friday that Karadzic is taking so long questioning witnesses that verdicts could be as late as April 2014.

Karadzic is accused of masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war.