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Foes of Radovan Karadzic must wait a little longer to see him in court. The former Bosnian Serb leader, who eluded capture for 12 years until his arrest in 2008, boycotted the start of his U.N. trial on genocide and war-crimes charges, claiming he needed more time to prepare his defense. Prosecutors allege that Karadzic, who is representing himself, carried out ethnic-cleansing campaigns in the 1990s in Bosnia. The judge has rejected Karadzic's protests and ordered that the trial continue...
Quotes About: • "Radovan Karadzic is making the world and justice ridiculous. He is joking with everybody." - Admira Fazlic, a woman who was imprisoned in Bosnian Serb-run camps during the conflict. (New York Times...
...Karadzic's shoes, I would opt for a drastic solution. One such solution is suicide." - Serb Republic President Dragan Cavic in 2004 as authorities were negotiating the surrender of former military chief Ratko Mladic and speculating that Karadzic was hiding in the country. (Time.com, July...
...stage was all set, but the star failed to appear: the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged architect of the savage 1992-95 war in Bosnia, started without the defendant at the international war-crimes court in the Hague. As prosecutor Alan Tieger gave his opening statement on Oct. 27, listing the 11 counts of war crimes, including two counts of genocide, against Karadzic, the defendant's seat remained empty, a pair of earphones sitting idly on the desk in front...
...when Karadzic refused to appear. With the defendant again absent the next day, the proceedings started without him. In his opening statement, Tieger said Karadzic had "harnessed the forces of nationalism, hatred and fear to pursue his vision of an ethnically segregated Bosnia." He also quoted the former Bosnian Serb leader as saying before the war that he would turn the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into a "black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die." (See pictures of Belgrade riots after Kosovo declared independence...