The Hague – The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special UN court at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia made their opening statements against Mladic on Wednesday almost a year after his arrest in Serbia and subsequent deportation after years on the run.
Mladic is accused of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including orchestrating the week-long massacre of over 7,000 Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian war.
Taylor is expected to reject the prosecution’s call for an 80-year jail sentence in a British prison. His attorneys say the proposed sentence is overly harsh and places too much blame for Sierra Leone’s wartime atrocities on Taylor.
Prosecutors said Taylor masterminded Sierra Leone’s civil war in the 1990s, arming and assisting rebels in exchange for