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Mladic: 'Butcher of Bosnia'

Friday, May 27, 2011 - 02:09

May 27 - How war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic went from career soldier to the man dubbed 'Butcher of Bosnia'. Paul Chapman reports.

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That's the name of -- -- -- is synonymous with what's being called the worst atrocity since the Second World War. He's accused of orchestrating the infamous 1995. Stripper and -- a massacre. 8000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in what was supposed to be a United Nations safe haven. The blood -- -- savor a single week many of the victims was systematically executed. Others were gunned down trying to escape through nearby woods. That the audience would bulldozed into mass graves. Nearly sixty years often the school to have the remains of the dead are still being honest. It was the terrific culmination of a three and a half here conflict. The war began in 1992. During its course the Bosnian Serb Army under the leadership of that it ceased most of Bosnia and laid siege to Sarajevo. His alleged co host of forcibly removed and Bosnian Muslims Croats and other incidents to tip Bosnian plans for a greater Serbia. 101000. People killed as much -- troops pounded the city with artillery and tanks mortars and heavy machine guns. The siege went on for 43 months. The war ended in 1995. The same here with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague indicted him for genocide. And who now has been found. That -- -- the loss to the trio heading the most wanted list accused of instigating a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian conflict. Wartime Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic died in detention in 20061. On trial for genocide and other war crimes. Former bulls -- Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is currently on trial in The Hague -- for war crimes. -- -- so long on the run rectum and -- referred to by many as the butcher of Bosnia will join his onetime political -- Paul Chapman -- is.

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