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Karadzic to boycott start of his trial

Thu, Oct 22 2009 13:42 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Karadzic to boycott start of his trial

Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, right, posing as a doctor of alternative medicine called Dr Dragan David Dabic and attending a medical lecture, is seen in this video grab released July 22 2008.

Karadzic to boycott start of his trial

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the court room of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the start of his initial appearance in The Hague, July 31 2008.

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader facing charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has written to the court saying that he does not intend being present when its proceedings start on October 26 2009.
 
Karadzic, who had been living in Belgrade, was arrested in 2008 and taken to the Hague to face charges related to his actions and those under his command against Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbian civilians in the 1990s as Yugoslavia disintegrated.
 
The start of his trial has been delayed twice, but a recent attempt at a further delay was rejected by the court.
 
Karadzic, who denies all the charges against him, said that he was not ready for the proceedings, international news agencies quoted a court spokesperson as saying.
 
Karadzic said that he had not had time to read the prosecution’s million pages of documents, the BBC said.
 
However, the trial probably would get underway in his absence, according to the court spokesperson.
 
"The tribunal judges control court proceedings. They are the only relevant body that can make a decision about the readiness of the case for trial," CNN quoted the court spokesperson as saying.
 

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Anonymous Dragomir Sat, Oct 24 2009 13:07 CET
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He looks in the photo rather like a Very Evil version of Father Christmas....


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