MICT: KaradA3/4iA demands removal of another trial judge.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan KaradA3/4ic asked the UN court to remove another judge from his appeal process for alleged bias, after the presiding judge stepped down from the case last month.

Radovan KaradA3/4ic on Monday asked for Judge William Sekule to be removed from the appeal process in his trial at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, BIRN reports.

KaradA3/4ic's defense argued that Sekule is biased because he was on previous judging panels at the UN court that convicted former Bosnian Serb Army officers Vujadin Popovic, LjubiA!a Beara, Drago Nikolic, Vinko Pandurevic and Radivoje Miletic and former Bosnian Serb intelligence and security chief Zdravko Tolimir. All were found guilty of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide.

'In the verdicts against Popovic et al and Tolimir, Judge Sekule rendered conclusions in relation to evidence and questions that are being brought up in the appellate procedure against KaradA3/4ic. Through those conclusions, judge Sekule confirmed verdicts of conviction against persons who were subordinate to KaradA3/4ic,' the defense's motion said.

The move comes after Theodor Meron, the presiding judge in KaradA3/4ic's appeal against his genocide and war crimes convictions, removed himself from the case last month after the former Bosnian Serb political leader's defense accused him of bias.

Meron is also the President of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.

KaradA3/4ic on Monday asked for Meron not to be allowed to appoint his own replacement or a replacement for...