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 |  Subject: Serb psychopath Karadzic regretted failure to kill all Muslims, court told  Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:02 am | |
| Radovan Karadzic's one regret over the massacre at Srebrenica was that some Bosnian Muslims ''got away'', prosecutors have alleged.
The former Bosnian Serb president again refused to attend the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Monday, as the prosecutor Alan Tieger concluded his case.
Mr Tieger accused Mr Karadzic of personal responsibility for ''one of humanity's dark chapters'' - the slaughter of more than 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
''He was informed of its progress throughout. He knew that men were being killed. He covered up the mass expulsions and murders and continues to do so today,'' Mr Tieger said.
''The only regret he had about the entire operation was that some Muslim men got away.''
Mr Karadzic, 64, faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war that claimed about 100,000 lives and caused another 2.2 million people to flee their homes.
War crimes investigators alleged that Mr Karadzic ''issued and signed'' orders between 1992 and 1995 that commanded troops to drive out Muslims in the Srebrenica region.
They also say that he directed General Ratko Mladic's notorious Drina Corps to end all ''hope of further survival or life'' for Srebrenica's Muslims.
''These crimes were the culmination of [his] determination to cleanse eastern Bosnia to ensure the Serb state he envisioned,'' Mr Tieger said.
On August 6, 1995, less than three weeks after the Srebrenica massacre, Mr Karadzic was said to have castigated his subordinates for allowing 9000 Muslims to escape.
''We were not able to surround and destroy that enemy because we were in a hurry and we assigned two generals to waste 15 days in negotiations with jackasses and idiots,'' he allegedly said.
Mr Karadzic was arrested on a bus in Belgrade in July last year after 12 years on the run. He has denied the war crimes charges, including genocide, and has protested that he needs more time to prepare his defence.
The presiding judge, O-Gon Kwon, ruled on Monday that the trial chamber ''considers Mr Karadzic's absence as the voluntary waiver of his right to attend the trial, and therefore the chamber will continue hearing the prosecution's opening statement''.
Mr Karadzic announced in a letter that had been earlier made public by the tribunal that he would be present for a special, procedural hearing yesterday to determine how to proceed with his trial in the face of his continued defiance.
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