BUTCHER OF BOSNIA

UN TRIBUNAL finds Serb military commander guilty over massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica.

''TODAY'S VERDICT is a warning to the perpetrators of such crimes that they will not escape justice, no matter how powerful they may be nor how long it may take.'' 

The above statement from UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein

A UN tribunal on Wednesday convicted ex-Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres of  Bosnian Muslims and ethnic cleansing campaigns to-
forge a ''Greater Serbia'', and jailed him for life.

Mladic was hustled out of the court minutes before the verdict of angrily shouting. ''This is all lies, you are all liars!''

The outburst occurred after Mladic returned to the courtroom from what his lawyers described as a visit to the bathroom, then a blood pressure test which held up the proceedings.

THE UN Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [ICTY] found Mladic guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including the slaughter of-

8,000 Muslim men and boys/students at Srebenica and the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, in which more than-

10,000 civilians were killed by shelling, mortar and sniper fire.

The killings in Srebrenica of men and boys/students after they were separated from women and taken away in buses or marched off-

To be shot amounted to Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

''The crimes committed rank among the most heinous known to humankind, and include genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity,'' Presiding judge Alphons Orie said in reading out a summary of the judgement. 

Man of these men and boys were cursed, insulted. threatened, forced to sing Serb songs and beaten while awaiting their execution,'' he said.

Mladic was the most notorious of of  163 ICTY indictees together with Radovan Karadzic, the former Serb nationalist leader and political mastermind of ethnic cleansing, and their patron, then-

Serbian President SIobodan Milosevic.