Radovan Karadzic to begin Hague war crimes defence
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is to begin his defence at a war crimes court in The Hague.
Mr Karadzic will defend himself against 10 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in the 1990s.
He has denied the charges, including one related to a massacre by Bosnian Serb troops at Srebrenica in July 1995.
Police arrested Mr Karadzic in 2008 on a bus in Belgrade after he had been on the run for almost 13 years.
Mr Karadzic, 67, went on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in October 2009.
The single genocide charge against him relates to the deaths of more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. It was the worst atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II.
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