Radovan Karadzic told judges trying him for genocide on Tuesday that wartime atrocities blamed on Bosnian Serbs were "staged" by their Muslim enemies and said the 1995 Srebrenica massacre was a "myth".

The Bosnian Serb wartime leader was granted another trial delay after concluding a two-day opening statement in which he told judges his people's role in the 1992-95 war had been demonised.