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Despite the fact that the trial is under way, Karadzic's boycott has cast a pall over the tribunal, which was set up 15 years ago by the U.N. Security Council to try those responsible for atrocities committed during the war. Many survivors and relatives of victims fear that Karadzic...
• "I am proud how he has been hiding all these years, and I am appalled how he was thrown in the jaws of the beast." Momir Vasiljevic, writer, after Serbia handed Karadzic over to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal. (AP, July 30, 2008)
"He's obviously trying to derail the whole trial," Natasa Kandic, a Serbian human-rights activist, told TIME by telephone from Belgrade, the Serbian capital. "I hope that the tribunal has learned some lessons from Milosevic's case and that they'll continue with the trial and disregard his games...
Karadzic, 64, is accused of orchestrating the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, during which some 10,000 people were killed, as well as the slaughter of about 8,000 captured Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. After more than a decade on the run, living in...
Despite the image he is trying to project of a lone individual squaring off against a heartless judicial machine, Karadzic is far from defenseless. He has assembled a formidable team of some 30 legal advisers, headed by Patrick Robinson, an American lawyer who once worked for the ICTY. For the...