Mladic 'called the shots' in Bosnia war, UN prosecutor tells trial

Ratko Mladic "called the shots" as his troops murdered and expelled thousands of civilians to carve out an ethnically pure Serb mini-state in Bosnia during the war of 1992-95, a UN prosecutor said as the former Bosnian Serb military chief's genocide trial neared its end.

Now, the 74-year-old's lawyers are trying to shift the blame, prosecutor Alan Tieger told a three-judge panel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as he began his closing statement.