Thursday, June 24, 2010

Radovan Karadzic tells UN court the Bosnian war was just and holy

By Laura Roberts Published: 9:06AM GMT 01 Mar 2010

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He dangling the protest of his violent death hearing to outline his counterclaim to a UN court.

"I will urge that republic of ours and their means that is only and holy," Karadzic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that is presided over by decider O-Gon Kwon.

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"We have a great case. We have great justification and proof."

Karadzic stands charged as the "supreme commander" of an racial clarification debate of Croats and Muslims in the 1992-95 Bosnian fight in that 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced. He has pleaded not guilty.

He is approaching to execute the Serbs as a minority that acted in self-defence in the Bosnian fight in his initial coming at the hearing that non-stop in Oct last year.

The wartime leader, who is conducting his own counterclaim in The Hague, will disagree over the subsequent dual days that the 1992-95 dispute "was a polite fight that the Serbs did not want," his authorised confidant Marko Sladojevic pronounced last week.

Karadzic, 64, will discuss it the judges of the ICTY that Bosnian Serbs "merely responded to the actions of others," pronounced the lawyer.

He was arrested on a Belgrade train in Jul 2008 after thirteen years on the run and faces hold up imprisonment.

Prosecutor Alan Tieger told the judiciary last year that Karadzic was the "supreme commander" of an racial clarification debate of Croats and Muslims in office of a Greater Serbia that was to embody 60 percent of the domain of Bosnia.

This enclosed the 1995 Srebrenica electrocute of some-more than 7,000 prisoner Muslim men and boys, and the 44-month encircle of the collateral Sarajevo that finished in Nov 1995 with a little 10,000 people killed.

Karadzic is purported to have worked with Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who died in Mar 2006 4 years in to his own violent death hearing in that he additionally conducted his own defence.

Karadzic boycotted the begin of his hearing in Oct last year, insisting on some-more time to hope for and causing a four-month delay.

The justice allocated Richard Harvey, a British lawyer, in Nov to take over the counterclaim in box Karadzic one after another his absence.

Karadzic has already attempted to check the hearing until Jun seventeen to investigate an one more 400,000 pages of charge justification he claims have been filed given October.

His ask was refused by the justice that ruled last Friday that the initial charge witness, whose temperament is being withheld, will attest on Wednesday.

His authorised confidant pronounced that Karadzic was expected to resume his protest on Wednesday.