Mladic

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  "Butcher Of Bosnia" Personally Oversaw 1995 Srebrenica Massacre: Prosecutor

  Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

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  'Butcher Of Bosnia' Faces Historic War Crimes Verdict

  UN war crimes judges will on Wednesday hand down a historic verdict against former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, blamed for steering Europe's worst atrocities since World War II

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  'Butcher Of Bosnia' Still A Hero At Home As Verdict Looms

  Dusko Mladic points to the portrait on his wall of his beloved cousin Ratko, the wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, who will next week learn if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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  UN Prosecutors Urge Life Term For 'Butcher Of Bosnia'

  Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to jail Ratko Mladic for life, accusing the former Serb commander of a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Serbia in the 1990s Balkans wars.

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  Rose Petals And Tears: Bosnians Honor Srebrenica Victims

  Thousands of Bosnians raised their hands in prayer today as a truck bearing 127 coffins passed through the capital on its way to Srebrenica, where the newly identified victims of Europe's worst massacre since World War II will be buried on the 21st anniversary of the crime.

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  UN Divided on Calling Srebrenica 'Genocide' 20 Years On

  The UN Security Council has postponed a vote recognising the Srebrenica massacre as genocide after Russia threatened to veto the draft text, even as Serbia's prime minister called for reconciliation 20 years after the slaughter.

• Mladic Defence Opens at UN War Crimes Tribunal

  Ratko Mladic's defence case opens at the Yugoslav war crimes court on Monday, with the Bosnian Serb ex-army chief accused of masterminding some of Europe's worst atrocities since World War II.

• Mladic war crimes trial halted over 'irregularities'

  The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army Chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the high-profile case.

• Mladic's genocide trial under way at War Crimes Court

  Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic went on trial on Wednesday at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ailing 70-year-old Mladic's appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal marks the end of a long wait for justice to...

• Defiant Mladic calls genocide charges 'obnoxious'

  Ratko Mladic, frail but defiant after 16 years on the run, made his first appearance before UN judges and his victims on Friday, dismissing a long list of charges of genocide, mass murder and persecution as "obnoxious" and "monstrous words" that had nothing to do with what he called the defence of his nation.The capture and trial of the Bosnian Ser...

• This Mladic victim was blinded in school at 14

  Sead Bekric was just 14 when he was hit and blinded by artillery fire on a schoolyard nearly 20 years ago during the Bosnian war. The graphic photo of his bloody, maimed face helped introduce the world to the atrocities that have been blamed on former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.Bekric, now 32 and living in Florida, told The Associ...

• Mladic gave him chocolate, then killed his father

  The video horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe -- just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 men and boys.The boy in the video is now a 24-year-old man. He clearly recalls the sunny day in July 1995 when he met the Bosnian Serb milita...

• Clashes erupt in Belgrade to protest Mladic arrest

  Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police on Sunday in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside parliament to demand his release.By the time the crowds broke up by late evening, about 100 people were arrested and 16 minor injuries we...

• War crimes fugitive Mladic arrested in Serbia

  Gen. Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the bloody massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested Thursday in Serbia after years in hiding, the country's president said.The arrest 16 years after Mladic was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for genocide, could be a jolt for Serbia's lagging efforts to join...