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| War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial at The Hague, his lawyer says. | War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial at The Hague, his lawyer says. |
| "Karadzic will have a legal team in Serbia that will help him with his defence but he will defend himself," said lawyer Sveta Vujacic. | "Karadzic will have a legal team in Serbia that will help him with his defence but he will defend himself," said lawyer Sveta Vujacic. |
| Mr Karadzic would be following former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who defended himself during his long-running trial at The Hague. | Mr Karadzic would be following former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who defended himself during his long-running trial at The Hague. |
| Mr Karadzic was captured on Monday after more than a decade in hiding. | |
| He is being held in Belgrade pending his extradition to The Hague in the Netherlands. | |
| His lawyer says he will appeal against the extradition, but not until just before the deadline to do so, on Friday. | |
| Mr Karadzic, who declared independence for Bosnian Serbs, sparking the Bosnian war, has been indicted for genocide over the massacre of up to 8,000 mainly-Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995. | |
| He went into hiding in the years after the war, but was discovered to be posing as a doctor of alternative medicine in Belgrade. | |
| He was arrested on a bus in a suburb of Serbia's capital on Monday. |