War crimes charges against Serb leader Radovan Karadzic

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity at his trial which starts in The Hague on Monday. The 64-year-old Bosnian Serb leader is accused over some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II in a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats. About 100,000 people were killed in the 1992-95 war. Another 2.2 million were forced out of their homes. Karadzic has denied all the charges. But the 69 page indictment states: Radovan Karadzic participated in a joint criminal enterprise to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from the territories of BiH (Bosnia-Hercegovina) claimed as Bosnian Serb territory. It details two charges of genocide, specifying the July 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica. Karadzic is charged with terror for the 44-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that ended in November 1995 after some 10,000 people died.