The war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic, who led Bosnian Serbs into a 1992-1995 war that killed 100,000 people, will start on Oct. 26 in The Hague, judges ordered Thursday. Karadzic, 64, who has unsuccessfully tried to have the trial delayed and have charges against him dropped, faces life in prison on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder, deportation, terror and unlawful attacks on civilians The trial will start at 9 A.M. Central European Time (0800 GMT) Monday, judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said in an order. The former Bosnian Serb leader also faces two counts of genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. Arrested last year and brought to the Hague-based UN tribunal after 11 years on the run, Karadzic has denied all charges.
