Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb political leader has denied all charges against him at The Hague and called for a complete dismissal of his trial.

Karadzic, who faces 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes for massacres at Srebenica and Bosnia stated,

"The prosecution hasn't proven my responsibility for the events in Srebrenica, nor that it was genocide."

"The prosecution has made a huge effort to try to make some kind of an indictment out of nothing. The entire indictment against me is founded on my alleged intent, or that 'we Serbs' intended to get rid of Bosnian Muslims and Croats from the territories where they had the right to live."

Karadzic’s lawyer Peter Robinson went on to tell the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague,

"There was no genocide in the municipalities in Bosnia in 1992... there is no way the trial can conclude that Dr Karadzic is guilty of genocide."

Karadzic went on to state that there was no evidence or documents that proved he had given any illegal commands whilst he served as president of the breakaway Republika Srpska. Stating that soldiers and lower-ranking commanders "kept their mouths shut", Karadzic said,

"How can the president of the republic, who has his hands full all day every day, possibly know something that was not known to the people in the chain of command in the very areas the events occurred?"

"Wherever I was involved... it was for humanitarian reasons and to ease the suffering of civilians, regardless of nationality."

“There are none of my fingerprints on any crimes.”

Admitting that killings did occur, Karadzic stated that these were for "on personal basis and for revenge", denying that there was a “joint criminal enterprise”, commenting "it's up to the prosecution to prove who did the killings and for what motives."

He then carried on to state the prosecution "hasn't proven the number of victims which is being used in public", commenting they had “succumbed” to “Muslim propaganda”.

The accused also denied that the city of Sarajevo was under siege by Serb forces, accused of shelling civilian areas of the city, telling the court,

"What could have been a motive for terrorizing Sarajevo when at the time between 50,000 and 70,000 Serbs lived there, who were barred from leaving?"

Karadzic was indicted for his role in the Bosnian War in 1995 along with General Ratko Mladic and was arrested on a bus in Belgrade in 2008.