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In his UN genocide and war crimes trial, former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic defended the killing of thousands of Muslims in Bosnia as "just and holy."

Karadzic, who faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, insisted that he was innocent and that the Serbs were only acting in self-defense against the "Islamist goals" of Muslims

He accused Bosnian Muslims of waging the war with American support, to create an "Islamic state."

"I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy," Karadzic said at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Monday.

He claimed to have "good evidence and proof." Karadzic's charges include the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims at the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.

The brutal slaughter is known as the 'largest mass killing on European soil since World War II'.

The supreme commander of an ethnic cleansing campaign is also charged with responsibility for the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, which ended in November 1995 after some 10,000 people, many of them civilians, were killed.

Karadzic, known as the 'Butcher of Bosnia', was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008 after nearly 13 years on the run.

The Sixty-four-year-old former leader is expected to present a two-day opening statement before prosecutors present their first witness on Wednesday.

The hearings, which started in October 2009, have been adjourned since early November after the tribunal appointed a lawyer to represent Karadzic.

The infamous ex-leader has been conducting his own defense and has boycotted the trials once, claiming he needed more time to prepare.

During his time in power, he was president of the self-styled Bosnian Serb republic and commander of its army during the Bosnian conflict which claimed about 100,000 lives — mostly Muslim — and caused the displacement of 2.2 million people.

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