Bosnia hails start of Mladic trial

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

The ailing 70-year-old is accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and his appearance at the UN court in The Hague marked the end of a long wait for justice for survivors of the 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead.