FILE - In this July 31, 2008 file photo, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Karadzic has been a psychiatrist, a poet, a leader of Bosnia's Serbs and a fugitive disguised as a new age guru. Now he has assumed yet another persona, a lawyer defending himself against charges of genocide and mass murder. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

FILE - In this July 31, 2008 file photo, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Karadzic has been a psychiatrist, a poet, a leader of Bosnia's Serbs and a fugitive disguised as a new age guru. Now he has assumed yet another persona, a lawyer defending himself against charges of genocide and mass murder.

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  1. Mirsad Tokaca, director of the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Centre, presents an atlas of war crimes that took place during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, that includes 50,000 geographic points where war activities took place, accompanied with photos and video-clips of the events, in Sarajevo November 3, 2009. Tokaca said the atlas aimed to help people learn about facts from the war to better face and understand the recent past. The Bosnian war crimes atlas, available on the website www.idc.org.ba, was launched on the same day when the mastermind of the Bosnian war, Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic, appeared before the Hague war crimes court temporarily giving up the boycott of his trial.
  2. Television sets braodcasts a live transmission of the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (UP) during his first court appearance since the start of his genocide trial at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in a coffee shop in Sarajevo, on November 3, 2009. Karadzic has refused to leave his jail cell since the trial started on October 26, saying he needs more time to review more than a million pages of prosecution evidence and the statements of hundreds of witnesses. He is charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war that claimed some 100,000 lives and caused 2.2 million people to flee their homes.
  3. A person reads as a television set braodcasts a live transmission of the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (UP) during his first court appearance since the start of his genocide trial at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in a coffee shop in Sarajevo, on November 3, 2009. Karadzic has refused to leave his jail cell since the trial started on October 26, saying he needs more time to review more than a million pages of prosecution evidence and the statements of hundreds of witnesses. He is charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war that claimed some 100,000 lives and caused 2.2 million people to flee their homes.
  4. People sit in a downtown cafe as former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appears on television screens in Sarajevo November 3, 2009. Karadzic appeared on Tuesday for an administrative hearing in his war crimes trial, temporarily giving up his boycott to ask for more time to prepare his case.
  5. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, right, enters the courtroom of the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Radovan Karadzic appeared in the courtroom for the first time since his trial began last week on charges of ordering Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war. Karadzic has boycotted the trial's first three days, saying he has not had enough time to prepare his defense even though he was indicted in 1995.
  6. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Radovan Karadzic appears in the courtroom for the first time since his trial began last week on charges of ordering Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war. Karadzic has boycotted the trial's first three days, saying he has not had enough time to prepare his defense even though he was indicted in 1995.
  7. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, center background, is watched by journalists in the courtroom of the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Radovan Karadzic appears in the courtroom for the first time since his trial began last week on charges of ordering Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war. Karadzic has boycotted the trial's first three days, saying he has not had enough time to prepare his defense even though he was indicted in 1995.
  8. Journalists watch former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (C) as he sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague November 3 2009. Karadzic appeared on Tuesday for an administrative hearing in his war crimes trial, temporarily giving up his boycott to ask for more time to prepare his case. Karadzic, 64, has denied all 11 war crimes charges brought against him over the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including two genocide charges -- for the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica and for broader atrocities.
  9. Afghan opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah (R) shakes hands with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon (C) as United Nation's special envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide (L, background) looks on prior to a meeting in Kabul on November 2, 2009. UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Kabul on November 2 to meet President Hamid Karzai over the Afghan election crisis with organisers to announce whether or not to scrap the poll after the only challenger pulled out. The surprise visit from Ban accompanied a diplomatic push to ensure the November 7 one-horse race does not take place, despite the initial insistence from some officials that it is too late to halt the process.
  10. Palestinian and UN vehicles take a flooded street following heavy rains in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on October 29, 2009. Hamas said it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza Strip stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories.
  11. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (2ndL), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR), Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier (R) and Secretary General of the French Delegates for the 64th Session of the General Assembly Philippe Thiebaud (L), at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  12. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2ndL) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (L), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR) and Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  13. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  14. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  15. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  16. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.

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