Jury Orders Karadzic to Pay $745 Million

A federal jury ordered Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to pay $745 million to a group of women who accused him of responsibility for killings, rapes, kidnappings, torture and other atrocities in their war-torn homeland. The verdict, coming after an eight-day trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, carries symbolic impact. The ability of the women to collect any money is in doubt. Karadzic is an international fugitive charged with genocide by a United Nations tribunal. The civil suit was filed by 12 women who survived rapes and beatings in the former Yugoslav federation, and on behalf of three organizations that provide humanitarian aid to war victims from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.