Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband, and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial yesterday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since the Second World War.

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.

A lone gunman was shot and captured after launching a terrorist attack outside the US Embassy in Sarajevo today.

BOSNIA’S election results showed moderates gaining ground in the central government, but hard-liners remained entrenched in the Serb entity, casting a shadow yesterday over the country’s European future.