Floodwaters triggered more than 2,000 landslides across much of the Balkans yesterday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines left over from the region’s 1990s war.

A BOSNIAN Serb accused of race crimes so brutal her victims called her the “Female Monster” has been arrested.

A Bosnian Serb accused of race crimes so brutal that her victims called her the “Female Monster” has been arrested.

Sarajevo. What does the name conjure up in your mind? Aerial bombardments in the 1990s are one possibility; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, triggering the First World War, is another.

Forensic experts have exhumed the remains of 277 people from a mass grave in north-eastern Bosnia containing the victims of Serb forces’ ethnic cleansing campaign, a forensic expert said today.