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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe’s worst genocide since the Holocaust, told judges Monday taht he was not the barbarian depicted by U.N. prosecutors but was protecting his people against a fundamentalist Muslim plot.
During a four-hour opening defense statement at the U.N. war-crimes tribunal, Karad zic barely referred to specific allegations of mass murder, indiscriminate shelling or the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
But he took personal responsibility for Serb actions, saying he was standing up for ethnic Serbs against Muslim Bosnians who wanted an Islamic republic in Bosnia.
