Prosecutor blames Karadzic for Srebrenica

RADOVAN KARADZIC orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys and his only regret was “that some Muslim men got away”, a UN prosecutor said yesterday at the former Bosnian Serb leader’s war crimes trial.

Karadzic again boycotted his own trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal yesterday, but pledged in a letter to judges that he would attend a procedural hearing today on his defence case.

Prosecutor Alan Tieger focused on Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II as he wound up his opening statement yesterday for the tribunal’s judges. Tieger called the July 1995 slaying in Srebrenica “one of humanity’s dark chapters” and laid the blame squarely at Karadzic’s feet.