Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic told a United Nations war crimes court today that he is “a gravely ill man”.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has applied to the UN war crimes tribunal to disqualify a Dutch judge from his genocide case, according to court documents released today.

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.

The UN Yugoslav tribunal today jailed the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament for 27 years for war crimes, but acquitted him of genocide.

A UN war crimes tribunal today sentenced Milan Babic, the wartime leader of Croatia’s rebellious Serbs, to 13 years imprisonment, saying his role in ethnic cleansing showed “ruthlessness and savagery”.

A former Bosnian Serb police commander was jailed for 17 years today for the murders of more than 200 Muslim men in 1992.

JUDGES at the Hague war crimes tribunal jailed a former Bosnian Serb general for 20 years yesterday for deliberately shelling and shooting civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1992-’95 Bosnian war.