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Key events in Bosnian war were fabricated - Karadzic
Published: 02 March, 2010, 23:57
Edited: 18 March, 2010, 21:49
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic looks up during his first court appearance since the start of his genocide trial in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague on November 3, 2009. (AFP Photo / ANP Photo / Michael Kooren netherlands out - belgium out)
TAGS: Conflict, Crime, Politics, Europe, Law
On the second day of his defense, wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed major events in the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995 were fabricated to malign the Serb community.
Karadzic denied culpability for the 44-month Serb siege of Sarajevo and mass murder of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, claiming the events were staged or made-up.
Prosecutors claim during the Yugoslav war that Karadzic was the “supreme leader” of the campaign to kill or expel Muslims and Croats from eastern Bosnia and create an ethnically pure Serbian state.
Karadzic faces 11 criminal charges, including two counts of genocide and other counts of murder and persecution. If found guilty he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Karadzic who is representing himself in The Hague said that “it is with great enthusiasm" that he is preparing for these proceedings.
“Regrettably this may endanger my health because I am working all night because I don't have enough time," he added.
Karadzic earlier claimed he wasn’t given enough time to prepare his defense and asked for the trial to be delayed, but the request was rejected.
However, on Tuesday the court granted him permission to appeal its earlier refusal to postpone further hearings to mid-June, and the judges adjourned the case until the appellate court rules on his complaint.
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OK "freedom", you said you were in US military and you were in Sarajevo in 1992. Would you please, tell me a few things: Who did send you in Sarajevo and why, in 1992? How did you get there, in 1992? What "a true atrocity" or more you saw? Have you met your friends from Al Qaida there, because they were there fighting against those awful Serbs as well? Did you meet Osama Bin Laden, or he was there in 1994 and 1995? Have you met Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? He was there. Do you know he got a honorary Bosnian citizenship after his stay? Did you get a honorary citizenship and a small bottle of water to help yourself?
"Indeed" indeed You and people like you crack me up who the hell setup the Hague in the first place for one, address the real issues.... start here http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18077 details like this speak for themselves, this and other hard evidence the hague refuses to look at, I mean the PR campaign wasn't really that good was it? And why is the 8000 mantra been repeated so often without the slightest review of the actual evidence, put the real evidence before a neutral jury and it'll be Bill Clinton and his side kicks that will face the Mothers of these poor soldiers that lost there lives in what was a preventable war. If you think i'm wrong in this don't rant and rave but answer the issues, i'm more than prepared to change my mind if you can do that.