UN prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic today - despite his continued boycott of the case – calling him the ’undisputed leader’ and ’supreme commander’ of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia’s brutal four-year war.

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.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will reappear before the UN war crimes tribunal later this month after his first skirmishes with the Netherlands-based court yesterday.

Three generals regarded as national heroes in Croatia went on trial today at the UN war crimes tribunal for orchestrating the slaughter of at least 150 Serbs.