General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went...

General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went on trial charged with planning and ordering the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, the largest mass killing of civilians in Europe since World War II. He is the highest-ranking military officer to face war crimes charges at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. If convicted on all charges, Kristic could face a maximum life sentence. The U.N. Tribunal is not empowered to impose the death penalty. During his trial Kristic insisted that it was not he but General Ratko Mladic who commanded the attack on Srebrenica in 1995 and the subsequent massacre of Bosnian Muslims. He claimed he knew nothing of the murder of more than 7,500 people. Although there are videotapes of him with General Mladic, declaring the victory of Srebrenica, Kristic said he left before the massacres began.