FORMER Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faced the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday as a defiant general who never lost a battle, denying the charges against him as “obnoxious” and “monstrous”.

BEREAVED families and survivors came to bury hundreds of victims of the Srebrenica massacre yesterday as world leaders demanded the arrest of the general whose troops killed the 8,000 Muslim males 15 years ago.