As trial ends, Karadzic expects to be acquitted

By Mike Corder

Published October 7, 2014 1:37pm ET

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As trial ends, Karadzic expects to be acquitted — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic addresses the court of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague Netherlands in this image taken from TV, Wednesday Oct. 1, 2014. Karadzic insisted Wednesday that United Nations prosecutors do not have "a shred of evidence" linking him to atrocities throughout the Bosnian war, and accused them of putting the entire Serb people on trial. In an 874-page written brief summarizing his defense, Karadzic said he should not be convicted by the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, but acknowledged that, as wartime leader of the breakaway Serb entity in Bosnia, he "bears moral responsibility for any crimes committed by citizens and forces of Republika Srpska." (AP Photo/ICTY via Associated Press Television) | AP

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Tuesday he expects to be acquitted of genocide and all other charges, as judges retired to consider their verdicts in his five-year war crimes trial.

Karadzic is charged with orchestrating atrocities by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including a deadly campaign of sniping and shelling in the capital, Sarajevo, and the 1995 murders of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

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