The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia postponed hearings on October 26 2009 in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for a day as he refused to leave his cell

The trial, 14 years since he was indicted, is being held at the UN court on the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, and the charges against Karadzic include his participation in the massacre of 8000 Bosnians at Srebrenica in 1995. 
 
The Srebrenica massacre has remained as a dark reminder of the war that tore apart the former Yugoslav republic, but for the relatives of the victims and other survivors of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, this is a trial that has been too long in coming, reports said.
 
The Hague authorities are being urged to be tough with the former Bosnian Serb leader, according to world media.

Dnevnik daily reported on October 26 that the former leader would boycott the hearing because the process is "biased" and because the "conditions are unfair", he says.
 
He faces 11 war crimes, and has declined representation, instead saying that he would defend himself. Karadzic claimed that he needs nine more months to prepare his defence, and because his wishes were not granted, this would constitute as an "unfair and biased trial".
 
Karadzic was apprehended after spending more than a decade on the run, but his desire to be allocated more time for his defence is unlikely to be honoured by the court, as victims and the families of the dead and missing have been frustrated by the length of time it has taken to bring many defendants to trial.
 
Many people think that following the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, who died in custody, the Karadzic case is the "last chance for the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to bring a political mastermind of the Balkan wars of the 1990s to justice," CNN said.