Ratko Mladic’s lawyer says he has a document proving the war crimes suspect has been battling cancer and that he was treated at a Serbian hospital in 2009.

A UN appeals court has overturned the war crimes conviction of Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim considered a war hero by many in his country for fighting Serbs in the embattled Srebrenica enclave during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Serbia’s president today called for the punishment of all responsible for the Srebrenica massacre – the worst carnage in Europe since the Second World War.

A Bosnian Muslim commander who defended the UN declared safe area of Srebrenica from Serb troops during the 1992-95 Bosnian war today denied he committed atrocities.

Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim wartime commander and former bodyguard of Slobodan Milosevic, was handed over to the Yugoslav tribunal today to face allegations of war crimes against the Serbs.