Wartime Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic used fake names during his hospital treatment in Belgrade in the 1990s, the Serbian authorities said today, amid reports that the top war crimes fugitive may finally be arrested by the end of this month.

FORMER Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s police directly controlled a notorious Serb armed unit known as the Scorpions and gave them a license to kill in Bosnia and Kosovo, a police document showed yesterday.

US presidential hopeful Wesley Clark ended two days of testimony at Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial today, saying the former Serb leader was the same argumentative and petulant man he faced over a negotiating table during the Balkan wars.

Prosecutors have introduced a key piece of evidence at Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial - a letter that implies he had power over rebel Serb troops responsible for atrocities in Croatia.

A Muslim, who served with the Yugoslav army in Kosovo, today described the slaughter of civilians and said his brigade commander ordered his men ‘‘not to leave any survivors.’’