Bosnia: Karadzic seeks court recess to study war diaries
The Hague, 27 May (AKI) - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has been charged with genocide and war crimes, has asked the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for a one-month recess to study the diaries of his wartime general Ratko Mladic. Serbian authorities in February confiscated 3,500 pages of Mladic's wartime diaries and gave them to the tribunal.
Karadzic has been charged with 11 counts of genocide and war crimes, focusing on the shelling of capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica in July 1995.
The same charges were brought against Mladic, but he and wartime leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia, Goran Hadzic, are still at large.
The Hague tribunal has indicted 161 people for crimes allegedly committed in 1991-1995 war that followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. More than 60 have been sentenced to over one thousand years in jail.
As he ended the cross examination of the seventh prosecution witness, retired Irish colonel Colm Doyle, on Thursday told Karadzic to read Mladic's diaries before he cross-examines the next witnesses.
The court was expected to make a ruling on his request later.
Doyle, who was European Union observer in Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war, accused Karadzic of indiscriminately shelling Sarajevo during 44-month siege and of terrorising civilian population.
Karadzic said Doyle's testimony was "irrelevant", because he had displayed bias and "selective memory" in his account
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