General Ratko Mladic threatened to wipe out the civilian populations of enclaves in eastern Bosnia in a chilling foreshadowing of the Srebrenica massacre, a former United Nations official told the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces but upheld 10 other counts at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

The wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs is due to appear before a judge today to hear charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

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 General Ratko Mladic told a United Nations war crimes court today that he is “a gravely ill man”.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has been assigned a Serbian lawyer to represent him when he appears before United Nations judges for the first time to face 11 war crimes charges.

A UN official who met Ratko Mladic when the former Bosnian Serb military commander was extradited from Belgrade says Mladic was “extremely co-operative” when taken into custody at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

THE lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says he has formally filed an appeal against the former general’s detention — a move that will likely delay his extradition for at least a day.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is fully equipped to deal with any health issues suffered by genocide suspect Ratko Mladic when he is extradited to stand trial in The Hague, a spokeswoman said.

Former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj faces a retrial for war crimes.

A MUSLIM man told judges yesterday at the UN trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic that he survived the Srebrenica massacre by feigning death beneath the bodies of men gunned down around him.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to appear in the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's court today for the first time since his trial began on charges of ordering atrocities throughout the Bosnian war.

RADOVAN KARADZIC orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys and his only regret was “that some Muslim men got away”, a UN prosecutor said yesterday at the former Bosnian Serb leader’s war crimes trial.

Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague have pushed back by two days the planned start of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s trial.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced today it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution.

The early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic - after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution – has been approved by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

The former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament will hear today if United Nations judges will overturn his conviction for orchestrating ethnic cleansing campaigns that killed thousands of Muslims and Croats.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today refused to enter pleas to new genocide charges and nine other counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

A former Bosnian Serb general was jailed for 33 years today for orchestrating months of deadly shelling and sniping during the notorious siege of Sarajevo in 1994 and 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 yesterday exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in Bosnia in the early 1990s, but ruled that it failed to prevent the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have appealed against the 27-year sentence imposed on a former senior Bosnian Serb political leader, calling it “manifestly inadequate” and urging judges to imprison him for life.

Liberia’s one-time warlord Charles Taylor was in the hands of Sierra Leone’s tribunal today, where he is set to become the first-ever African head of state tried on war crimes charges by an international court.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, today rejected a request by former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to go to Russia for medical treatment.

A Dutch nurse accused of murdering 13 patients, including a two-month-old baby and a UN war crimes judge, went on trial today for allegedly injecting her victims with lethal drugs.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is to appoint a lawyer to assist Slobodan Milosevic.