Radovan Karadzic -- the Bosnian Serb wartime leader in the early 1990s -- will seek to portray Bosnia's Serbs as a threatened minority who acted in self-defense throughout the war, when his genocide trial resumes on March 1, 2010 at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.
The 1992-95 Bosnian conflict -- which killed 100,000 people, and displaced 2.2 million others -- "was a civil war that the Serbs did not want," Karadzic's legal adviser, Marko Sladojevic, has already told the court in a pre-trial statement, according to the Gulf-Times website.
The 64-year-old Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity before the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Arrested on a Belgrade bus in July 2008 -- after 13 years on the run -- Karadzic risks life imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty, and insists on conducting his own defense.
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