Many of the acts that the former Serb leader in Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic, is accused of committing happened over fifteen years ago. No reason, it seems, we can’t wait another day to start the genocide trial against him, eh?
The one-day delay for the trial’s opening — from Monday to Tuesday — was the result of Karadzic’s boycott of the trial’s opening. That said, the court said the prosecution would open its case on Tuesday, regardless of whether Karadzic showed up. Click here for the WSJ story; here for the Bloomberg story; here for the AP story.
Karadzic has been in detention in The Hague since he was discovered in Belgrade last year, in disguise and practicing alternative psychiatric medicine. He has refused to be represented in court by a lawyer.
He is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, including two of genocide. The charges . . .