Trial highlights bitter ethnic divide

Twenty years after Ratko Mladic’s forces began raining artillery fire on Sarajevo, the former Serb general looked down again on the Bosnian capital’s main square from a giant screen showing the start of his genocide trial live from The Hague.

Those who had survived a siege in which 10,000 died cursed his name.

But in the cafes of his wartime stronghold of Pale, just 16km away, his every appearance on the television screens set off applause.