Three Bosnian Serbs charged with genocide, were today accused of massacring thousands of Muslims “like animals” in the UN safe area of Srebrenica during the Bosnia war.

THE “unimaginable” rapes, killings and camps of the 1992-5 Bosnian war evoked the horrors of World War II, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright told the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday.

The Dutch government resigned today, less than a week after a report on the 1995 fall of Srebrenica held political leaders and army officers partly responsible for failing to protect Muslims in the UN declared safe zone in Bosnia.

The Dutch cabinet today met for crisis talks to discuss the damaging Srebrenica report which has prompted two ministers to consider resigning.

A NATO swoop in eastern Bosnia today failed to find Radovan Karadzic, the UN war crimes court’s most wanted man.