After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge in the first step towards charges for international war crimes, including the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

THE slaughter of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war was a myth staged to vilify Serbs accused of their murder, former leader Radovan Karadzic has claimed.

The killing of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war was a myth staged to vilify the Serbs accused of their murder, former leader Radovan Karadzic claimed today.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today defended himself against genocide charges, claiming attacks against Muslims were self defence.

NOTING the inaccuracies in Steven King’s column on Radovan Karadzic and the Yugoslavian wars of the 1990s (October 28), I feel compelled to outline a few historical facts.

RADOVAN KARADZIC orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys and his only regret was “that some Muslim men got away”, a UN prosecutor said yesterday at the former Bosnian Serb leader’s war crimes trial.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's only regret about the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims was that some survived, his war crime trial heard today.

A former Yugoslav army chief will go on trial at The Hague today for his alleged role in atrocities in Bosnia including the Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo.

A mass grave believed to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, officials said.

Forensic experts have begun excavating bodies from the eighth mass grave found near a village in eastern Bosnia which they say contains victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Masked special police, backed by helicopters, searched a western Serbian town today as part of a stepped up hunt for UN war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, witnesses and media said.

SERB security officials insisted yesterday that top war-crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic had been located and that authorities were trying to persuade him to give himself up.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers commissioned by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) has detected geographic patterns associated with mass graves that will help find hidden graves in the future.

A Bosnian Serb paramilitary accused by the United Nations war crimes tribunal of some of the worst atrocities in the Bosnian war has been arrested in Argentina.

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.

Forensic experts excavating a mass grave in eastern Bosnia have exhumed the partial remains of 240 people believed to have been victims of the massacre in Srebrenica.

Forensic experts today began identifying 38 bodies recently exhumed from a mass grave in Bosnia, including nine children and a woman who was eight months pregnant when she died.

A top Serb official said today that Serbian authorities had the political will to arrest former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic and hand him over to a UN tribunal.

Police and spies have practically taken over the house of Bosnia’s most wanted war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, anxious to see whether he returns home for the funeral of his mother, a Sarajevo daily newspaper reported today.

The mother of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic died today, hospital officials said.

Two Bosnian Serbs who surrendered to the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia last month pleaded not guilty today to war crimes allegations.

Commemorating Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, more than 20,000 people gathered in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, today to rebury the remains of some of the more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Bosnian Serbs nine years ago.

NATO-led peacekeepers today searched the wartime Bosnian Serb stronghold of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, a spokesman said.

US presidential hopeful Wesley Clark ended two days of testimony at Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial today, saying the former Serb leader was the same argumentative and petulant man he faced over a negotiating table during the Balkan wars.

THE Mothers of Srebrenica pressure group has launched an 875 million compensation claim against the Dutch government and the UN for failing to prevent the worst European massacre since World War II.

A SOLDIER who participated in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica said yesterday at the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that many of the victims were lined up in rows and shot with machine guns.

Thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War marked the eighth anniversary of the slaughter today by burying 282 more identified bodies.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC yesterday ridiculed the first witness called

Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for genocide, claimed today that the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica was concocted by the French secret service to turn world opinion against the Serbs.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC relaxed in his chair and smiled across a UN courtroom yesterday as prosecutors accused him of genocide.

Slobodan Milosevic relaxed in his chair and smiled across a UN courtroom today as prosecutors accused him of genocide, claiming he was the kingpin in a plan to wipe out Bosnia’s Muslims.

Nato led troops have ended an operation to gather information about the support network helping Radovan Karadzic evade arrest.

Nato troops are blocking roads in eastern Bosnia and flying helicopters over an area where the most wanted war crimes suspect is presumed to be hiding.

Forensic experts have discovered a mass grave in Bosnia that may contain up to 100 bodies of people killed at the end of the 1992-95 war.

A man has been accused of plotting to assassinate the commander of the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia.

Europe’s most wanted accused war criminal, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, is healthy and in good spirits, an associate said today.

NATO soldiers have reportedly begun a new operation near the eastern Bosnian village of Celebici, where they failed to find former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic yesterday.

A NATO swoop in eastern Bosnia today failed to find Radovan Karadzic, the UN war crimes court’s most wanted man.

The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic will start later today.

The United Nations Security Council today nominated Secretary-General Kofi Annan by acclamation for a second term at the helm of the world body, paving the way for his election by the 189-member General Assembly.