Not guilty plea entered for Karadzic before ICTY

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

THE HAGUE (AFP) — The UN's Yugoslav war crimes court Friday entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic to genocide and war crimes charges after he refused to file his own plea.

Karadzic, 63, made his second appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Friday, six weeks after his arrest in Belgrade and 13 years after being indicted by the court.

He faces charges over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.

The charges against Karadzic include the 44-month siege of Sarajevo that left 10,000 dead, and the July 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected area of Srebrenica.

The trial is not due to...

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