London, March 01: The Serb cause in the Bosnian war was “just and holy”, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic told a UN court today as his genocide trial resumed in The Hague.
“I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy,” Karadzic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
“We have a good case. We have good evidence and proof.”
Karadzic stands charged as the “supreme commander” of an ethnic cleansing campaign of Croats and Muslims in the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced.
He is set to make an opening statement over the next two days, outlining his defence to 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
—Agencies