Radovan Karadzic is boycotting his genocide trial.

The genocide and war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic has begun in The Hague 15 months after the former Bosnian Serb president was captured in Belgrade, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Karadzic himself is boycotting the opening of the trial in a defiant gesture against what he considers a rush to justice by the UN court prosecuting him. His refusal to show up at the Yugoslav tribunal is a blow to survivors who hold him responsible for tens of thousands of deaths during the brutal 1992-95 Bosnian war.

The prosecution and defence will each have one year to present their case in the trial.

Karadzic faces life imprisonment on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his actions during an inter-ethnic war that claimed an estimated 100,000 lives after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

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