Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was...

Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was charged with the July 1995 slaughter of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a UN-declared demilitarised zone. He was the highest-ranking Serb to go before the UN tribunal on genocide charges. "Over a period of about five days, thousands of Bosnian Muslim civilians and Bosnian Muslim soldiers who had laid down their arms were systematically murdered by members of the Bosnian Serb army," prosecutor Mark Harmon said. Those who tried to hide, he said, "were hunted down with dogs and slaughtered." Serb forces ordered a Dutch peacekeeping battalion of 150 soldiers to stand aside and embarked on a campaign of extermination and deportation. Muslim men were taken by bus to execution sites, homes burned and the main mosque razed. Women and children were transferred to Muslim-held territory. A conviction for Krstic would bring a maximum life prison term. The UN court has no death penalty.