<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/05/Karadzic_denies_war_crimes/UPI-73161 225925991/> http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/05/Karadzic_denies_war_crimes/UPI-731612 25925991/
Karadzic denies war crimes Published: Nov. 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Radovan Karadzic, held in the Netherlands, testified Wednesday in the appeal of a former ally convicted of war crimes, denying Serbian atrocities. He also refused to be cross-examined. Karadzic is preparing for his own trial at the international tribunal in The Hague. Momcilo Krajisnik, the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, is appealing a 27-year prison sentence. In written testimony submitted to the court, Karadzic said that Krajisnik was not part of the Bosnian Serb "presidency" during the war, the BBC reported. He also said that atrocities against Bosnian Muslims were not the policy of the presidency. Peter Robinson, Karadzic's defense lawyer, called prosecution attempts to question him "nothing more than a transparent attempt to use his answers against him at his own trial." Karadzic, a trained psychiatrist, was the president of Serbian Bosnia. He was arrested in July in Belgrade, where he had been practicing alternative medicine under an assumed name.
