Radovan Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic has said he should be rewarded for "reducing suffering", not accused of
carrying out war crimes.
Beginning his defence at his
trial in The Hague, he said he was a "tolerant man" who had sought peace in
Bosnia.
Mr
Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade in 2008 after almost 13 years on the
run.
He
faces 10 charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the war in
the 1990s, including the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo.
More
than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were
killed at Srebrenica in the worst single atrocity in Europe since the end of
World War II.
During
the 44-month siege of Sarajevo more than 12,000 civilians died.
Mr Karadzic, 67, went on trial at the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in October 2009.
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