Date for Karadzic war crimes trial set
Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will go on trial in The Hague on October 26th
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Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will formally go on trial at the United Nations war-crimes tribunal in The Hague on October 26th.
The trial had been due to begin next Monday but was put back for a week as Mr Karadzic continues to try and delay the trial.
The 63-year-old is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, dating back to the Bosnian war.
Mr Karadzic is suspected of being directly involved in the killing of 8,000 Muslim Bosnians in the town of Srebrenica in 1995 and will also be examined over his role in other events during the war such as the siege of Sarajevo.
The former Bosnian-Serb leader is representing himself in the trial, and the latest delay has been agreed to allow him time to review new prosecution documents.
He was arrested in Belgrade last year after more than a decade on the run during which time he posed as an expert in 'human quantum energy'.
Mr Karadzic's former military commander, Ratko Mladic, is also wanted by the United Nations court, but remains at large.