'Butcher of Bosnia' Mladic to face justice

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.

No longer the fearsome, bull-necked “Butcher of Bosnia”, Mladic was arrested by intelligence agents yesterday in a pre-dawn raid at a relative’s house in a village in northern Serbia.