Top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic is being guarded by armed men and has no intention of surrendering to the UN war crimes tribunal, according to a senior Serbian official.

Hard-line supporters of Serbian mass killer Radovan Karadzic are threatening to bring violent chaos to Belgrade tomorrow with a huge rally in his support.

War criminal Radovan Karadzic has spent his first days in prison getting a barber to return him to the familiar coiffured figure who once terrorised tens of thousands.

Radovan Karadzic is to fight Serbia's attempt to extradite him to the Netherlands to face a war crimes court.

IT IS remembered as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

The office of Serbian president said last night that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been arrested in Serbia.

TENS of thousands of Muslims from across Bosnia gathered yesterday to remember the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and bury the remains of more than 300 victims.

THE UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia yesterday sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years’ imprisonment for the shelling of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.

European Union foreign ministers were to press Serbia today to live up to international demands it hunt down and hand over top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal.

The UN war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands today found insufficient evidence of genocide in the ethnic cleansing and atrocities against Bosnian Muslims in the case against the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament.

The UN war crimes tribunal imposed a light two-year sentence on the commander of the Muslim defenders of the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica for failing to prevent murder and torture of Serb captives.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor may soon be moved to a high security prison in the Netherlands that should withstand even his notorious ability for escape.

Both police and the military are intensively searching for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, Serbia’s minister in charge of cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

A European Union deadline for Serbia to surrender war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has expired with no sign of the former army commander, threatening the nation’s efforts to join the bloc.

The son of General Ratko Mladic – the Bosnian Serb wartime commander sought by the UN war crimes tribunal – said he would refuse to negotiate his father’s surrender with Serbian authorities, according to a Belgrade newspaper today.

The death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the outbursts of nationalism during his funeral in Serbia, make it unlikely that General Ratko Mladic will soon be handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal, Europe’s top security agency said in a report today.

Slobodan Milosevic was to be laid to rest today with a private funeral expected to draw tens of thousands of followers – their admiration unshaken by the fact he was on trial for some of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II when he died.

An autopsy and tests on Slobodan Milosevic’s blood found no evidence of poison or medicines in concentrations that could have killed him, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will consider declassifying documents in Slobodan Milosevic’s case so they can be released to Dutch authorities investigating the former Yugoslav president’s death.

The lower house of the Russian parliament today harshly criticised the UN War Crimes Tribunal, blaming it for Slobodan Milosevic’s death and calling for its quick closure.

Slobodan Milosevic’s son Marko arrived in the Netherlands today to claim the body of the former Yugoslav president.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague today announced the formal end of the case against Slobodan Milosevic following the Serb leader’s death last weekend.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague today announced the formal end of the case against Slobodan Milosevic following the Serb leader’s death last weekend, and expressed regret that a verdict in the landmark trial was now impossible.

Slobodan Milosevic’s Socialist party threatened to topple Serbia’s minority government if the former Yugoslav president was not buried with state honors in Belgrade and if his widow was not allowed to attend the funeral.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body was being released to his family today after an eight-hour autopsy revealed that the former Yugoslav president died of a heart attack in his prison cell.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post-mortem findings last night.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

For Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians, Slobodan Milosevic came to personify the brutality and destruction that befell them in the 1990’s, during his campaign to rid the province of separatists.

Slobodan Milosevic’s family clashed today over where the former Yugoslav president should be buried, with proposals ranging from Serbia or Montenegro to Russia.

The UN war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands has said Milan Babic, leader of wartime rebel Serbs in Croatia, has committed suicide in prison.

The European Union will suspend entry negotiations with Serbia if it does not fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal, the EU’S enlargement commissioner said today.

An EU official in Brussels has said the bloc will suspend entry negotiations with Serbia-Montenegro if it does not fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal.

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.

A Belgrade newspaper today claimed that Bosnian Serb wartime commander and top war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic is in Russia.

Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina arrived at Madrid’s high court today ahead of his extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal, Spain’s Interior Ministry said.

The noose is tightening around top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, Serbian media and officials said today.

A Bosnian Serb commission said today it has identified more than 17,000 participants in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst slaughter of civilians since the Second World War.

Nato today welcomed the plea by the wife of fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic for her husband to surrender, saying such a move would benefit his family, Bosnia and the whole region.

The wife of fugitive Radovan Karadzic today appealed to her husband to surrender to the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal “for the sake of the family”.

Serbia’s police chief today denied reports top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been located, but said authorities were working to find him and extradite him to the UN war crimes tribunal.

Serbian police have arrested at least eight men they say are shown in a video killing a group of Bosnian Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica, a top Belgrade official said today.

Cutbacks have forced the country’s leading forensic expert to drive up to four hours at a time to attend murder scenes, it emerged today.

Irish culture has become more violent in recent years, State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy has said.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague released two top aides to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic today pending the start of their trials.