Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said “no reasonable court” would convict him, in an interview published Wednesday, a day before a UN tribunal rules on whether he committed some of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II.
Ahead of Thursday’s verdict from the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a defiant Karadzic said he had been fighting to preserve peace and expected to be “acquitted.” “My expectations are the same (as they always were). I know what I wanted, what I did, even what I dreamed of, and there is no reasonable court that would convict me,” Karadzic told the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in an interview by e-mail.
The notorious political leader faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity arising out of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war in which some 100,000 people perished and 2.2 million were forced from their homes.
He however insisted that “my permanent fight to preserve the peace, prevent the war and decrease the sufferings of everyone regardless of religion were an exemplary effort deserving respect rather than persecution.”
Source: Arab News