Legal advisors to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic have gone on strike over unpaid fees; as Karadzic insists on representing himself at the Tribunal.

Court papers filed by Karadzic on Wednesday claim his legal team is owed some 70,000 euros (100,000 dollars) in unpaid bills.

While 64-year-old Karadzic insists on representing himself at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the genocide and war crimes suspect has eight legal advisors helping him to prepare his defense.

Marko Sladojevic, one of Karadzic's advisors, said the team stopped work on Tuesday. "Mr Karadzic has been completely on his own since yesterday," he told AFP.

The whole team suspended work because they have not yet been paid. We cannot continue working for free," he added.

Defendants' legal bills are normally paid for by the court. The ICTY declined to comment.

Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which some 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million forced to flee their homes.

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