Appeals judges at the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have reinstated a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992.

Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has failed in his attempt to delay the start of his war crimes trial.

Thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War will mark the 10th anniversary of the slaughter today by burying the newly-identified bodies of 610 victims.

Judge Richard May, who has presided over Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial for two years, is to resign due to illness, the UN tribunal said.