he nominated his american legal advisor peter robinson to deal with that issue, and perhaps the mostious crime he is accused of is the mass cure. he is accused of masterminding and directing the massacre of more than 8,000 muslim boys and girls. on thursday he simply denied he knew what was happening, and therefore the charge should be thrown out. >> the truth is, he never planned or orders these executions, and if you agree to the legal lynching urged upon you by the prosecution, an innocent man will be convicted of a crime he didn't commit. >> reporter: he dealt with the charge against him that he was accused of terrorizing the city of sarajevo. the city same under repeated shell fire. 10,000 residents from all different communities were killed during that period. and during the prosecution case, many witnesses were called some u.n. military observers who were there at the time of the fighting, and they aledge the vast majority of the shelling was from serb forces, ranged on the hills that surrounded the city. he tried to undermine that argument. he criticized many of the witnesses