Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Judges at an international war crimes tribunal have begun delivering landmark judgments in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

The former chief of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years for aiding Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

The former chief of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years for aiding Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

THE wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs declined to enter a plea yesterday in his first court appearance to face charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

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 Ratko Mladic has threatened to boycott a hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where he is scheduled to enter pleas to charges including genocide.

United Nations prosecutors plan to file a new indictment against Radovan Karadzic within days to update the eight-year-old charges against the former Bosnian Serb leader.

A wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs was today convicted of murder, torture and persecution by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.

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.

Top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic is in Serbia, but he “remains at large,” chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said today.

Serbia is not negotiating for the surrender of Ratko Mladic, the top war crimes suspect from the Yugoslav wars, and he “remains at large,” chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said today.

The European Union will delay the opening of membership talks with Croatia at least until March, giving Zagreb three months to bring an indicted war criminal to justice, sources said today.