Radovan Karadzic: Bosnian war was just and holy

By Bruno Waterfield in The Hague Published: 9:49AM GMT 01 March 2010

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The Bosnian Serb wartime personality non-stop his counterclaim currently as his violent death and fight crimes hearing resumed in The Hague.

"I mountain prior to you not to urge the small mortal that I am but to urge the mass of a small republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina that for 500 years has had to humour and has demonstrated of tact and stability to tarry in freedom," he told the justice in his opening statement.

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"I will urge that republic of ours and their means that is usually and holy. We have a great case. We have great justification and proof."

Karadzic is charged by UN prosecutors with being the "supreme commander" of an racial clarification debate of Muslims and Croats in the 1992-95 Bosnian fight in that 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced.

Beginning his counterclaim his opposite eleven counts of genocide, fight crimes and crimes opposite humanity, he indicted a "conspiracy core" of fundamentalist Bosnian Muslims of starting the war, with American support, to emanate an Islamic state.

"They had an Islamist goal. They longed for 100 per cent energy as it was in the days of the Ottoman Empire. There were elemental goals becoming different the future of a total region. Therefore the period of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the idea and usually period that could not be conducted in a legal." he said. "They wish Islamic fundamentalism and they have been wanting it from 1991 to 1995."

Last November, the UN fight crimes judiciary listened justification that the 64-year old suspect had "issued and signed" orders, in between 1992 and 1995, autocratic Republika Srpska infantry to expostulate out Muslims in eastern Bosnia"s Srebrenica region.

UN prosecutors have presented evidence, together with video footage of killings and debate photographs of mass graves, of how Bosnian Serbs screened afterwards killed groups of journey Muslim men and boys after their constraint of Srebrenica, a ostensible UN protected enclave, in Jul 1995.

The prosecutors quoted Mr Karadzic to show that "the usually regard he ever voiced about Srebrenica was that commanders had let a little of the Muslims escape".

On 6 August 1995, less than 3 weeks after the Srebrenica massacre, the afterwards Bosnian Serb boss castigated his subordinates for unwell to "finish" 9,000 Muslims who transient capture.

Mr Karadzic, who is representing himself, with dual authorised advisers, has refused the assistance of a justice allocated lawyers and has indicted the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of denying him the time to mountain a full defence.

After primarily boycotting the opening of his hearing last October, Karadzic has pleaded not guilty for charges carrying the chastisement of hold up imprisonment.

He was arrested on a Belgrade train in Jul 2008 after thirteen years on the run.