Ratko Mladic

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian-Serb general who is facing war crimes charges at the Hague, had his trial suspended indefinitely on Thursday. The presiding judge, Alphons Orie, postponed the trial because of “significant” errors made by the prosecution in disclosing evidence to Mladic’s defence team, the New York Times reports.

The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian-Serb general who helped plan and oversee the Siege of Sarajevo, is underway in The Hague. Mladic stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for orchestrating a savage program of ethnic cleansing that culminated in Srebenica in 1995, where more than 7000 Muslim men and boys were murdered.

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Serbian police surround the family apartment of Ratko Mladic