By Aaron Gray-Block THE HAGUE, July 23 (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal promised on Thursday to try to streamline the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged with genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. One year after Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade, presiding pre-trial judge Iain Bonomy said at a status hearing the prosecutors should focus on "reasonably representative" incidents or crime sites to cut the trial "down to size". Karadzic is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including two of genocide, over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. He has denied all charges. Bonomy, in charge of a working group trying to speed up tribunal trials, identified alleged forcible transfers and deportation of people and destruction of private property as areas where the prosecution could try to speed up the trial. Prosecutor Alan Tieger said he would try to separate the "wheat from the chaff", but said he wanted to show that the crimes were widespread and systematic, reflecting a pattern of command and control. Karadzic's trial is expected to start in September and to be completed in early 2012. Pre-trial procedural delays have exasperated judge Bonomy in recent months. Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic died during his Hague trial, which had lasted four years and called 300 witnesses. Karadzic challenges the number of victims killed at Srebrenica and called on Wednesday for full disclosure of DNA records, suggesting one person's DNA could have been used to represent three people, inflating the number of victims. "Everything ... that has been presented about Srebrenica is erroneous. There are living people coming out now whose names are on gravestones," he said. On July 8, the tribunal rejected Karadzic's motion to have charges against him dropped, arguing that an alleged immunity deal promised to him by U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke was irrelevant to his trial. Karadzic has since been granted the right to appeal that ruling. (Editing by Andrew Roche)
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir waves to supporters at an event organized by the Sudanese embassy in Cairo July 17, 2009. Bashir was indicted in March by the International Criminal Court ...
