Former Bosnian Serb strongman Radovan Karadzic had his sentence raised to life on Wednesday for war crimes during Bosnia's 1990s war.
The bloody conflict between Bosnia's Serbs and its Muslims and Croats was part of a series of wars in the Balkans that erupted in the wake of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia after the fall of communism.
Here is a rundown of the fate of some of the key players in the Balkan wars, which also involved Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia and claimed more than 100,000 lives.
- Appeals underway -
- Karadzic: The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found him guilty in 2016 of genocide and nine other charges including extermination, deportations and hostage-taking.
His appeal hearing opened in April 2018.
The genocide conviction arose from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia in which almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered.
Karadzic, now 73, evaded capture for 13 years until he was arrested in 2008 on a Belgrade bus, wearing a bushy beard and masquerading as a New Age healer.
- Ratko Mladic: A former Bosnian Serb military leader dubbed the Butcher of Bosnia, he was arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run.
Mladic, now aged 77, was convicted for genocide and war crimes, including over the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, and sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2017.
He appealed in March 2018 and the case is still to be resolved.
- Jailed -
- Biljana Plavsic: Former president of the Serbs' self-declared Republika Srpska and the only woman to be convicted by the ICTY, she pleaded guilty to war crimes and was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2003.
Now 88, she
