The verdict in the Radovan Karadzic case does not mean the end of trauma that the victims' families are going through, a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide Hasan Nuhanovic said in an N1 programme.

“Karadzic is a 73-year-old man who will stay in prison until the rest of his life. What he did while he was in power remains and leaves a consequence that affected and will keep affecting our lives in the near and the far future,” said Nuhanovic, commenting on the final verdict that the appeal judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals handed down on Wednesday.

Nuhanovic cannot say if he is happy or not with the final judgement in this case.

“As a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I hope that the verdict can bring something better. If it cannot bring anything better, then what was it for?” he asked.

He does hope, however, the verdict will relax the relations in the country.

“The politics is the one who further complicates the relations. If we had one constructive and peacetime politics at all sides – and I don't see that coming, we would still have a problem of facing the past but would also have one single platform for the benefit of all of us,” according to Nuhanovic.

Radovan Karadzic, wartime President of Republika Srpska, what is today a semi-autonomous entity within Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison for the role he played as the Serb leader in the 1992-95 Bosnian war among other charges for the mass killings in the eastern town of Srebrenica what two international court earlier ruled was a genocide.