Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he expects to be acquitted of genocide and all other charges as his five-year war crimes trial wrapped up and judges retired to begin considering their verdicts, the Associated Press reports.

Karadzic is charged with orchestrating atrocities by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, ranging from a deadly campaign of sniping and shelling in the capital, Sarajevo, to the 1995 murders of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

In his final comments to a three-judge panel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Karadzic said Tuesday that "The war did not happen as I wanted it."

The conflict left 100,000 dead and forced thousands more to flee their homes.

Judges are expected to take months to reach verdicts.