Karadzic to face new charge sheet
United Nations prosecutors plan to file a new indictment against Radovan Karadzic within days to update the eight-year-old charges against the former Bosnian Serb leader.
Prosecutor Alan Tieger told a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal hearing at The Hague in the Netherlands that he would file a motion seeking permission to update Karadzic's 11-count indictment by Monday at the latest.
Mr Tieger did not indicate whether the new indictment would include more or fewer charges than the current 25-page indictment.
Once they get Mr Tieger's motion and the proposed new indictment, judges will have to consider whether to approve it and Karadzic will have to enter pleas to any new charges it contains.
Karadzic, 63, faces genocide charges for allegedly masterminding atrocities, including the slaughter of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995 and the deadly siege of Sarajevo, when he was president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic.
Judge Iain Bonomy registered not guilty pleas to the 11 charges last month after Karadzic twice refused to enter pleas.
At Wednesday's hour-long hearing Karadzic said he had launched an investigation to back his claim that he was promised immunity from prosecution in return for disappearing from the public eye in a 1996 deal with US peace envoy Richard Holbrooke -- a claim Mr Holbrooke has repeatedly denied.
Karadzic said that when tribunal officials blocked attempts to shield him from prosecution Nato tried to kill him.
"I have irrefutable evidence that Nato tried to liquidate me," he told Judge Bonomy.
Judge Bonomy told Karadzic that he and two other judges were already studying three separate motions Karadzic had filed linked to his claimed immunity deal with Mr Holbrooke and they would issue a ruling soon.
