CRI听力:Former Bosnian Serb Leader Karadzic Trial Ends

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he expects to be acquitted of charges of war crimes and genocide.

Karadzic has made the suggestion in the closing arguments of his trial in The Hague.

The 69-year old is charged with orchestrating atrocities by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

Prosecutors are calling for him to be convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

But Karadzic, who has conducted his own defence throughout the trial, has rejected the charges against him.

"It doesn't cross the prosecutor's mind, how could joint criminal enterprise have been implemented, how could it have contained any element of removing non-Serbs from Republika Srpska without war? And even when the war broke out, the prosecution neglects to notice our great efforts for combat to be avoided and to solve everything at the negotiating table."

Among the charges Karadzi is facing include issues connected to the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo in which more than 5-thousand civilians died.

The overall Bosnian War left around 100-thousand people dead.

Karadzic remained at large for 13 years after being indicted in 1995.

A ruling by the International Criminal Court isn't expected for around a year.