Ratko Mladic opens defense at UN genocide trial
[JURIST] Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic [BBC profile; JURIST
news archive] began his defense case before the UN International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Monday
with testimony of Mile Sladoje, a former Serb army officer who claimed
that he was never ordered to shoot civilians during the the 1995
Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder]. Mladic faces an 11-count
indictment, alleging that he was responsible for the massacre as well as
a Serb sniping and mortar...
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