صربيا: مجرم حرب البوسنة يطالب بالتكريم بدلًا من العقوبة على قتل المسلمين

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

طالب "رادوفان كرادزيتش" - القائد الصربي البوسني السابق الذي يحاكم بالمحكمة الجنائية الدولية على ارتكابه مجازر بشرية وإبادة للمدنيين أثناء "حرب البوسنة" في فترة التسعينيات - طالب بأن يتم تكريمه؛ زاعمًا قيامه لكل ما يقدر عليه ليمنع نشوب حرب، غير مهتمٍ بصرخات الحضور من المسلمين الذين وصفوه بالكاذب.

ونفى ضلوعه ومسؤوليته عن مقتل 8 آلاف مسلم من النساء والأطفال والرجال العُزّل في "مذبحة سربرنتشا" عام 1995، إضافة لنفيه المشاركة في قتل المدنيين أثناء حصار المدن الإسلامية خلال "حرب البوسنة"، والتي حصدت أرواح نحو 100 ألف قتيل. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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War Crimes Suspect Karadzic Demands 'Reward' at Trial

Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has denied responsibility for genocide and other war crimes, saying instead he should be rewarded for trying to avoid more bloodshed.

The words of a court official marked the beginning of the long anticipated defense by war-crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, detained in 2008, after years on the run.

Karadzic began his defense Tuesday at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague.

Wearing a suit and appearing defiant, he introduced himself as a peace-loving "medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, group analyst and writer," who could never have carried out atrocities during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s.

Though he was also president of the Bosnian Serbs at the time, Karadzic claimed he had been wrongly charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He said that instead of being accused of events in the civil war, he should have been "rewarded," because, in his words, he "did everything within human power to avoid the war."

Karadzic did not appear disturbed by cries of "He is lying! He is lying!" from some Muslim survivors of the three-year war that left more than 100,000 people dead.

In an extensive statement, he denied involvement in several atrocities, including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Karadzic said he heard about what has been described as Europe's worst single atrocity since World War Two, but said he was not able to conclude an investigation because he was forced to step down as president.

He also addressed the siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, by Serb troops. He said Muslims faked the circumstances of the shelling of a marketplace in February 1994 that killed 68 people and injured 144 others and another similar attack.