THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One Bosnian Serb leader testified in defense of another at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, blaming Muslims’ wishes for an Islamic state in Bosnia for fueling the country’s ethnic war.

Radovan Karadzic, accused by United Nations prosecutors of orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, called one of his successors, Milorad Dodik, as a defense witness at the long-running genocide trial. Karadzic was the wartime president of the Bosnian Serbs.