Bosnian Muslims planted corpses and exaggerated death tolls, Karadzic claims

By Bruno Waterfield in The Hague Published: 4:33PM GMT 02 March 2010

Former Bosnian Serb personality Radovan Karadzic Photo: AP

The wartime Bosnian Serb personality used his second day in the wharf of a United Nations judiciary to flow ridicule on allegations of violent death and fight crimes for that he has been charged on eleven counts.

Karadzic, 64, insisted that the Serbs could not be hold underneath obligation for the four-year encircle of Sarajevo, where 12,000 died from shelling and sniper fire, given the atrocities were a "cunning strategy" by Bosnian Muslims "aimed at bringing in unfamiliar infantry and unfamiliar intervention".

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"They shelled their own people and killed their own people from snipers," he said.

Two barbarous bombings of a Sarajevo marketplace that killed dozens in 1994 and 1995 were faked, he said, in sequence to censure the attacks on Serbs.

"You see that it was staged. Perhaps it was corpses that were planted," he said.

Karadzic additionally claimed that the murdering of some-more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, described by UN prosecutors as the misfortune slaughter in Europe given the Second World War, was additionally a novella combined by Muslims to expel some-more censure on Serbian forces.

"It is going to be easy for me to infer that I had zero to do with it," he said. "It is a myth."

Karadzic is indicted of personal shortcoming for Srebrenica underneath a violent death indictment. Last Nov prosecutors presented justification display that "the usually bewail he had about the complete operation was that a little Muslim men got away".

The hearing was shelved again on Tuesday tentative an interest by Karadzic for some-more time to hope for his defence.