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Serbia: Karadzic will destroy 'myth' of Srebrenica, says aide Belgrade, 5 August (AKI) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will destroy the "false myth" about the massacre of Muslims in the town of Srebrenica, his defence aide Milivoje Ivanisevic told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Tuesday. The Hague-based United Nations international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has charged Karadzic on 11 counts, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The court has charged Karadzic with genocide for allegedly having organised the massacre by Serb forces of up to 8,000 Muslim civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995 (photo). “Karadzic has no illusions that the UN tribunal is a court of justice and that he will walk out as a free man, but many things will look different when the trial is over,” Ivanisevic told AKI. Ivanisevic is director of the Belgrade-based Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Serbian People. He is considered by his Bosnian Muslim critics as a right-wing Serbian propagandist who is determined to minimise the number of Muslim victims killed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 civil war. "They can call me whatever they want, but I’m not going to The Hague with cheap propaganda material, but with hard facts which will withstand any scrutiny,” he said. Karadzic insisted on having Ivanisevic on his defence team at The Hague, although he has said he will defend himself before the court. Ivanisevic was also on the legal team of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic who faced charges of genocide and war crimes before he died in his jail cell in The Hague in March 2006. Karadzic appeared for the first time before the UN tribunal on Friday after his arrest in Belgrade and transfer to The Hague. He had been on the run for over a decade, living under a false name and identity. Karadzic alleges that former United States envoy to the Balkans Richard Holbrooke gave him written assurances that he would be spared prosecution for war crimes if he withdrew from politics at the end of the Bosnian civil war. Holbrooke has repeatedly denied the existence of such a deal, but Karadzic claims his life has been in danger ever since because Holbrooke would rather seen him dead than in The Hague. A former senior international representative to Bosnia <http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.2384415508> Christian Schwarz-Schilling, last Friday warned that Karadzic may reveal "embarrassing secrets" to the Hague tribunal. __._,_.___
