A JUDGE ruled yesterday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.

A defence lawyer for Ratko Mladic says a Belgrade court has ruled that the former general can be extradited to a UN tribunal.

The trial of the suspected assassins of Serbia’s prime minister opened in Belgrade today, with the focus on an alleged plot by gangsters and police to bring allies of Slobodan Milosevic back to power.

THE trial in Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic on charges of ordering the killing of two political rivals will probably begin within two months, a judge said yesterday.