Every few decades, almost unfathomable savagery breaks out in some part of the world and reminds us all of the darkness that lurks, and will probably lurk forever, at the heart of humanity.

The British former commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia today told Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes trial how the Serb brought terror and suffering to Muslim enclaves.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insisted yesterday he did everything possible to avoid conflict and hispeople were victims of Muslim aggression as he ended a boycott of his genocide trial.

A Bosnian-Serb general pleaded not guilty today at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges stemming from the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica.

Slobodan Milosevic must have known that thousands of Muslims were being slaughtered by Serbs in Srebrenica, a former top UN commander told a war crimes court today.