UN prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic today – despite his continued boycott of the case – calling him the “undisputed leader” of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia’s brutal four-year war.

A witness reports that before the war, Karadzic predicted Serb forces would turn the Bosnian capital Sarajevo into “a black cauldron, where 300,000 Muslims will die.”