THE Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men slain by Serbs during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, appeals judges have ruled, ordering the Dutch government to compensate the men’s relatives.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has told a United Nations war crimes court he is “a gravely ill man” and refused to enter pleas to “obnoxious charges” alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen Ratko Mladic has entered a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal courtroom to hear the charges on 11 counts that accuse him with orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian war have gathered outside a courtroom in The Hague for the start of UN criminal proceedings against Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Ratko Mladic’s lawyer says he has a document proving the war crimes suspect has been battling cancer and that he was treated at a Serbian hospital in 2009.

FORMER Bosnian Serb military commander Radtko Mladic must be held to account for using his power to commit atrocities that tore a nation apart, a UN war crimes prosecutor said.

FORMER Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was extradited to the Netherlands yesterday to face genocide charges at the UN war crimes tribunal after 16 years on the run.

Angelina Jolie is to make her directing debut in a Bosnian movie romance.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of Europe’s worst genocide since the Holocaust, today claimed his people were only defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today defended himself against genocide charges, claiming attacks against Muslims were self defence.

War-time Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is requesting that the UN Security Council pass a resolution exempting him from trial at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, insisting he was promised immunity by an American envoy.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic could go on trial as early as October 19 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the pre-trial judge of the tribunal overseeing his case said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims prayed for the dead in Srebrenica today, the 14th anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War, and buried hundreds of victims recently recovered from mass graves.

SERBIA launched a major search yesterday for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, sending scores of special police to comb through a western town on orders from Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor.

A NEW indictment compiled against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, pictured right, who is charged with war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, will be filed by Monday, prosecutors told a UN court yesterday.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will reappear before the UN war crimes tribunal later this month after his first skirmishes with the Netherlands-based court yesterday.

A plane believed to be carrying former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic landed today in the Netherlands, where a United Nations war crimes tribunal will try him for genocide.

HIDING behind a long white beard and glasses, Europe’s most wanted man Radovan Karadzic was living a new life, practicing alternative medicine, when he was finally arrested.

Hiding behind a long white beard and glasses, Europe’s most wanted man Radovan Karadzic was living a new life practising alternative medicine when he was finally arrested.

Thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War sued the United Nations and the Dutch government today for their failure to protect civilians in the Srebrenica safe haven when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995.

Lawyers for thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War are suing the United Nations and the Dutch government.

The United Nations’ highest court today ruled that Bosnian Serbs committed genocide during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, but has yet to announce whether Serbia, as a nation, should be held responsible.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president indicted for war crimes for orchestrating the Balkan wars of the 1990s, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the UN tribunal said today.

Forensic experts recovered the remains of more than 70 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre from a mass grave in north-eastern Bosnia, an official said today, adding the site may contain up to 150 bodies.

Thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War will mark the 10th anniversary of the slaughter today by burying the newly-identified bodies of 610 victims.

A Bosnian-Serb general pleaded not guilty today at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges stemming from the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica.

A top Bosnian Serb general who was a close aide to wartime commander Ratko Mladic is to surrender voluntarily to the UN war crimes tribunal.

A Bosnian Muslim commander who defended the UN declared safe area of Srebrenica from Serb troops during the 1992-95 Bosnian war today denied he committed atrocities.

Assets linked to top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic have been frozen.

Nato troops are blocking roads in eastern Bosnia and flying helicopters over an area where the most wanted war crimes suspect is presumed to be hiding.

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who harshly rejects United Nations allegations that he ordered murders and deportations during the Balkan wars, was today to continue presenting his own defence at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague.