Bosnian Muslim Munira Subasic, right, takes part in a small demonstration of relatives of the Bosnian war dead outside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands today.
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Mladic defiant at war crimes trial

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand. full story

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