The trial of Ratko Mladic gets underway in the Hague.
The former Bosnian Serb general's facing charges of genocide, and stands accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995.
The massacre is widely-considered Europe's worst single atrocity since World War 2.
The trial began with the prosecution's opening remarks.
Prosecutors said Mladic and other Bosnian Serbs had divided the territory of the former Yugoslavia along ethnic lines, and instigated a plan to exterminate non-Serbs.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) PROSECUTION LAWYER, DERMOT GROOME, SAYING:
"Civilians who were targeted for no other reason than they were of ethnicity other than Serb. Their land, their lives, their dignity attacked in a coordinated and carefully planned manner. In some locations this attack arose to the level of genocide."
Seventy-year-old Mladic was arrested last May after 16 years on the run.
He has dismissed the charges against him as "monstrous" - claiming he's too ill to stand trial.
Mladic is the last of the main protagonists in the Balkan wars of the 1990s to go on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.
Travis Brecher, Reuters
