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WatchMojo profiles 10 war criminals who were caught and imprisoned or executed, including Bosco Ntaganda, Radovan Karadžić, Klaus Barbie, and Slobodan Milošević.

## Key Takeaways

- International tribunals such as the ICC and ICTY have held war criminals accountable across decades and regions.
- Commanders and political leaders can be held responsible for atrocities committed under their authority.
- Many perpetrators evaded justice for years, sometimes with outside help, before being captured.
- Legal concepts like command responsibility and genocide convictions shaped how these cases were prosecuted.

## What the video covers

- The video introduces a countdown of 10 war criminals who were eventually caught and either imprisoned or executed.
- Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese militia leader, was convicted by the ICC in 2019 of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 30 years, the lengthiest ICC sentence to date.
- Radovan Karadžić, first president of Republika Srpska, was convicted of genocide and other crimes during the Bosnian War and sentenced to 40 years, after being arrested in 2008.
- Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon,' was a Gestapo chief in occupied France who was later hired by US intelligence, fled to Bolivia, was arrested in 1983, and died in prison.
- Slobodan Milošević rose to power in Serbia and was accused of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars; he died of a heart attack before a verdict was reached.
- Jean Kambanda, Rwanda's prime minister during the 1994 genocide that killed up to 800,000 people, pleaded guilty and received a life sentence.
- Ratko Mladić, Bosnian Serb army chief, was convicted of genocide over Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo and sentenced to life in prison in 2017.
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, a Japanese general, was tried and hanged for command responsibility over atrocities committed by his troops in the Philippines.
- Saddam Hussein was hanged in 2006 after being found guilty of the Dujail massacre of 1982.
- The video covers Charles Taylor and the Nuremberg trials, including Adolf Eichmann, showing the range of international justice mechanisms.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and Ntaganda
2. 01:03 Karadžić and Bosnian Serb Leadership
3. 02:13 Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon
4. 04:20 Slobodan Milošević
5. 05:38 Jean Kambanda and the Rwandan Genocide
6. 06:38 Ratko Mladić and Srebrenica
7. 08:39 Tomoyuki Yamashita and Saddam Hussein
8. 10:49 Charles Taylor and Nuremberg

Answers

## Questions about this video

Which war criminal received the longest sentence from the ICC according to the video?

The video states that Bosco Ntaganda, convicted in July 2019, received a 30-year sentence, which it describes as the lengthiest ICC sentence given to date. He was found guilty on 18 charges.

How did Klaus Barbie avoid justice for so long?

According to the transcript, US intelligence hired Barbie after the war to work against communism, and they helped him flee to Bolivia. He was not arrested until 1983 and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.

What happened to Slobodan Milošević before his sentencing?

The video says Milošević was arrested in 2001 and charged with war crimes by the ICTY, but he died of a heart attack before he could be sentenced.

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Carriage maintained his innocence even today his lawyer said the former Serb leader is disappointed and astonished by the verdict welcome to watch Mojo and today we're looking at 10 war criminals who faced Justice it was important to bring him to Justice because he had to

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pay for his crimes for this list we're looking at the worst war criminals who were eventually caught and either imprisoned or executed what do you make of these stories let us know in the comments below hailing from kinigi Rwanda Bosco and

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taganda once led the National Congress for the defense of the people an armed militia found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the National Congress fought the state military in the kivu conflict known as the Terminator pentaganda conscripted young children

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and pre-teens into the conflict which is considered a war crime under the international criminal court I am at peace with myself because I know these allegations are all lies he became wanted by the ICC and voluntarily surrendered in March of 2013. no

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official reason has been given for this decision regardless integanda was convicted of crimes against humanity in July 2019 and sentenced to 30 years in prison after a three-year trial tuganda was found guilty on 18 charges becoming only the fourth person ever to be

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convicted of war crimes by the ICC as of 2023 this is the lengthiest sentence ever given by the ICC right much of this man's activity has been confined to the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990 founded the Serb Democratic party a

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controversial political party involved in Ultra nationalism and islamophobia rather than Carriage saw an opportunity to reinvent himself as a militant nationalist leader riding on this wave of growing Serbian nationalism particularly amongst his fellow Bosnian serbs it is also currently under

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sanctions by the United States karachich was also heavily involved in the Bosnian War which was fought between the country's military and a proto-state called Republica serpsca karage created the Republica serbska a semi-autonomous region within Bosnia made up of ethnic

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serbs and was elected as its first president karajich served as the first president of Republica serbska and conducted various acts of genocide during the war he was wanted by the international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and became a fugitive

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karajich was working under an alias in Belgrade when he was arrested in 2008 and he is now serving life in prison Rado vancarajicich was sentenced to 40 years in prison for atrocities committed during the Bosnian War the U.N war

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crimes tribunal ruled the former Bosnian Serb leader oversaw a campaign of persecution Terror and extermination Klaus Barbie known as The Butcher of Lyon Klaus Barbie was a Nazi stationed in occupied France he worked as the local head of the Gestapo which was the

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secret police of Nazi Germany created by Hellman Gering the former gestapo Chief in Lyon has the blood of thousands of French Jews on his hands Barbie often tormented prisoners of war and caused the deaths of up to 14 000 people the

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United States intelligence Community greatly offended France when they hired Barbie to work for the counter-intelligence corps suppressing communism in Europe after the war he was hired by the Americans as an anti-communist agent they are known that he had this time in

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Lyon which was brutal but it was very much a case of kind of not wanting to know they also helped him flee to Bolivia where he worked closely with the country's dictatorial regime and continued his violently coercive methods

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he wasn't arrested until 1983 but was eventually sentenced to life in prison and died of cancer in 1991. on July 4th 1987 16 years after the Clarksville began their hunt Barbie is found guilty Slobodan milosevic born in german-occupied Serbia in 1941 sloboram

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milosevic showed promise as an intelligent leader he studied law advised the mayor of Belgrade and eventually went into politics but it's here that things get dicey we are not supporting any military action in Bosnia and Herzegovina we were not

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provoking or supporting hostilities milosevic Rose to power throughout the late 80s and ran the anti-bureaucratic revolution of Yugoslavia he's successfully overthrew the government and became president of Serbia in 1991.

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milosevic became heavily involved in various skirmishes including the Bosnian and Kosovo Wars is [Music] during this time he helped enact ethnic cleansing against local croats bosniaks and albanians he was arrested in 2001 and charged with war crimes by the

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international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia I consider this tribunal Force tribunal and in the expense Force indictments it is illegal being not appointed by U.N General Assembly however he died of a heart attack before he could be

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sentenced Jean combanda the Rwandan Genocide began on April 7 1994 for just over three months armed Hutu militias massacred the local Tutsi population resulting in up to eight hundred thousand deaths within hours a campaign of violence spread from the capital

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Kigali throughout the country which will not stop for three months as the genocide lasted for about 100 days this is an average of 8 000 deaths per day during this time Rwanda was led by Jean combanda who was serving as the fifth

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prime minister of the country you were the Prime Minister you were in charge of the country why didn't you do more why didn't you do anything to stop it well now you see it we tried he says but the

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forces of the massacre were more powerful than the government he fled Rwanda in July of 1994 and was arrested three years later he was accused of Distributing weapons for the purpose of killing civilians and charged with a number of serious war crimes including

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genocide and crimes against humanity did you distribute weapons to Hutu so they could kill the Tutsi I gave weapons for to the people to protect themselves not to keep the Toots I never give although to kill them he pled guilty and was convicted

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resulting in a life sentence in mali's kulikuro prison radcom ladich we returned to the Bosnian War for the story of radkomladic you know your own people and your soldiers to them you're a great man you're a hero to your

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enemies you're somebody to be feared and somebody to be hated born in the independent state of Croatia vladic worked for the army of Republica serpsca during the Bosnian War serving as chief of the general staff many experts believe that miladich was personally

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responsible for both the srebre Nitza Massacre and the siege of Sarajevo which combined for over 22 000 deaths prosecutors say what malarich believed to be his greatness was in fact ethnic cleansing and genocide it would reach its climax with the massacre at

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srebrenitza July 11 1995. he was issued an International arrest warrant following the Bosnian War but remained a free man for over 15 years landich was finally arrested in 2011 and convicted of various war crimes including genocide crimes against humanity and violating

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the customs of War he was sentenced to life in prison but the court rejected The Plea finding maladic guilty on one of two counts of genocide and nine of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the chaotic breakup of the former

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Yugoslavia tomoyuki Yamashita this Japanese military leader was Paramount in the Pacific Theater of World War II serving important roles both in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore he later fought against Allied Forces while working as military

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governor of Japan to the Philippines it was here that soldiers under Yamashita committed various atrocities leading to his historic trial following the war in Manila the final phase of the trial of tamoyuki Yamashita once considered the outstanding General Japanese Army he is

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accused of condoning Mass atrocities by his troops now known as the yemista standard the military governor was hit with the legal doctrine of command responsibility this Doctrine claims that military leaders are lawfully responsible for the crimes of their

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subordinates he was convicted of the transgressions and hanged on February 23 1946. the commission finds you guilty is charged and sentences due to death by banging Saddam Hussein back in 1968 Saddam Hussein helped overthrow the first Iraqi Republic placing his Arab

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socialist bath party in control and establishing Bathurst Iraq and at just 31 he became the country's second most powerful man next to president Ahmed Hassan al-baqar still little known outside Iraq Sudan was quick to make an impression when he had the chance he

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then served as the country's fifth president Between 1979 and 2003. some experts have argued that his rule was totalitarian and he was responsible for countless human rights abuses and I saw him throughout My Teenage life as the brutal dictator that committed so many

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crimes against so many people in Iraq this includes ethnic cleansing terrorism and chemical warfare resulting in at least 250 000 deaths these crimes against humanity led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 resulting in saddam's capture and the dissolution of his bath

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party he was found guilty of perpetrating the dujal massacre of 1982 and was hanged on December 30th 2006.

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the families are victims of Saddam Hussein's regime and Shiites who also suffered under his rule took to the streets and danced with joy after the dictators hanging Charles Taylor responsible for the first Liberian Civil War Charles Taylor once worked for

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Liberian president Samuel Doe before overthrowing him with his National patriotic front he's about to stand trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity so is he a war criminal or the much maligned hero and preacher his supporters say he is doe was executed

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and Taylor ran Liberia between 1997 and 2003. he was also heavily involved in the Sierra Leone Civil War and it was during this time that he committed various crimes against humanity the prosecution says the crimes were committed in Sierra Leone during one of

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Africa's worst civil wars during the 90s Taylor resigned in 2003 and fled into Exile he was captured on March 29 2006 when his Range Rover was stopped by border guards in Nigeria presiding judge Richard Lucic claimed that Taylor was

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responsible for quote some of the most heinous and brutal crimes in recorded human history and sentenced him to 50 years in prison Taylor will now be transferred from a Detention Center in The Hague possibly to a British Maximum

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Security Prison his victims were pleased by the decision but said they were still suffering before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be

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notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications [Music] the Nuremberg trials Nazi Germany answered for its horrible crimes during the historic Nuremberg trials which

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lasted nearly one year between November 1945 and October 1946. the old Palace of Justice at Nuremberg stages what is without doubt the greatest trial in the annals of the human race a total of six German organizations and 24 high-ranking

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Nazis were Tried by the international Military Tribunal included in this list were Nazi party secretary Martin Bowman and Hitler's designated successor helmond guring now for the first time in history a state's rulers were to be held personally responsible for their Crimes

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by an international tribunal three were acquitted and two were met with no decision everyone else was punished with sentences ranging from 10 years to death of the 19 defendants found guilty 12 received death sentences Bulman was convicted in absentia and Gering took

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his own life the accused didn't exactly cover themselves in Glory at the Nuremberg trials they denied responsibility and blamed everything on their superiors they were just following orders the 10 remaining defendants were collectively executed on October 16 1946. other Nazis were also executed

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including Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann who died in 1962. foreign [Music]

Topics: war criminals war crimes international justice ICC genocide Nuremberg trials Bosnian War Rwandan genocide Slobodan Milošević Radovan Karadžić

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