1. M/S Lawyers & court officials arrive into the court room at the Intentional Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Hague, Netherlands, UPSOUND: "All rise" "The International Criminal for the Former Yugoslavia is now open"

2. M/S Permanent Judge Alphons M.M Orie, Netherlands calls for the case of Ratko Mladic to resume

3. M/S Peter McCloskey, Counsel for prodecution asks witness about evidence of a drawing: "What are these supposed to depict?"

4. C/U Drawing alleged to be done by Ratko Mladic

5. M/S Witness says the picture shows heavy equipment of an on-going execution site

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Netherlands: Former commander of Bosnian Serb army on trial

The trial against former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic resumed on Tuesday in the Hague with a hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court was established by the United Nations in 1993 to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It is also the first war crimes court created by the UN and the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials.

Mladic is on trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide during the conflicts in the Balkans. He is accused of being responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Captured in Serbia in 2011 after 14 years of being a fugitive, the 71-year-old, who was dubbed by the media as "The Butcher of Bosnia," faces 11 charges in total for his role in Bosnia's war from 1992 to 1995 that left 100,000 people dead.

7,500 Bosnian men and boys were taken from their homes and murdered in Srebrenica, then buried in mass graves in 1995. Women were forcibly removed, along with young children and some elderly men as part of a mass ethnic cleansing programme. Mladic faces charges on two counts of genocide, persecutions, exterminations, murder, deportation, inhumane acts, terror, unlawful attacks on civilians and the taking of hostages.

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