Mladic 'threatened civilians'

General Ratko Mladic threatened to wipe out the civilian populations of enclaves in eastern Bosnia in a chilling foreshadowing of the Srebrenica massacre, a former United Nations official told the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

David Harland, the second prosecution witness to testify at the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s UN trial, said he met often with Mladic during the 1992-95 war and noticed him becoming increasingly belligerent as the conflict went on, including threatening to kill civilians in the UN-protected enclaves, which included Srebrenica.