By Bruno Waterfield in The Hague Published: 7:09PM GMT 01 March 2010
Former Bosnian Serb personality Radovan Karadzic Photo: AP The Bosnian Serb personality eventually damaged his overpower with a ancestral coming in the wharf to privately urge himself opposite eleven United Nations indictments for fight crimes.
Karadzic, 64, who has put on weight during eighteen months in his "Hague Hilton" jail cell, gave a wayward and ardent sworn statement that embellished him, and the Serbs, as the loyal victims of the Bosnian war.
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During 4 hours of gabbled evidence in Serbo-Croat, mostly oral as well fast for the justice interpreters to keep up, Karadzic blamed Islamic militants, America, Germany and the European Union for the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
"What I"m going to benefaction here is the marble truth," he said. "Everything the Serbs did as piece of their own bona fide defence, all of that is treated with colour as a crime."
Frequently referring to himself in the third chairman as "Dr Karadzic", he denied waging a aroused racial debate opposite Muslims and Croats in that 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced. "The Serbs were the celebration that done concessions for the consequence of preserving assent and they were never in foster of a fight solution," he claimed.
Karadzic showed the justice a sketch of what appeared to be a Middle Eastern belligerent holding the cut off head of a Serb fighter, an picture that removed purported links in between Bosnian Muslims and Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda.
He indicted a "conspiracy" of Muslims, stealing at the behind of calls for Bosnian independence, of waging a "jihad" opposite Serbs. "They had an Islamist goal. They longed for 100 per cent energy as it was in the days of the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire," he said. "They wish Islamic fundamentalism."
The fight was not proposed by Serbs but began, Karadzic insisted, after America and the EU triggered the break-up of multiethnic Yugoslavia by recognising uneven declarations of autonomy from Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia.
Harking behind to the Second World War, when Serbian partisans fought with Allied await opposite occupying Nazi forces, Karadzic pronounced that a malicious Germany had rallied European powers and the US opposite the Serbs. "Yugoslavia could usually be damaged up in war," he said. "The German feat was finish when the former adversaries from World War Two were you do their work for them."
Karadzic pronounced the Western media had aided Muslim "war tricks", together with the faking of thoroughness stay photographs and staged atrocities in Sarajevo during the 44 month encircle of the city where 12,000 civilians were killed.
Karadzic, who is representing himself, has refused to come in a counterclaim and has indicted the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of denying him the time to mountain a full defence. He was arrested on a Belgrade train in Jul 2008, sheltered as a whiskered conviction healer, after thirteen years on the run.
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