Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander who will hear his verdict on charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity next week in the Hague, is one of the highest profile war crimes suspects in Europe since Nuremberg. In the international court where his trial began more than five years ago, he is accused of ordering the killing of 8,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys after the capture of the town of Srebrenica, and raining artillery on civilians during the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. But here in his home village, where barely two dozen people - mostly his blood relatives - still remain in the hardscrabble countryside of the Bosnian hills, Mladic is, as the slogan on his portrait at a makeshift tavern declares, "a hero". Mladic, who was captured in 2011 after a decade and a half on the run, is still revered in the Serb sector of Bosnia as a hero and defender of the nation during the 1992-1995 war that killed more than 100,000 people. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic SEARCH "MLADIC VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Matching text: WARCRIMES-MLADIC/VILLAGE 

A woman cries beside a truck carrying 136 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in front of the presidential building in Sarajevo July 9, 2015. The bodies of the 136 recently identified victims of Srebrenica massacre will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Hajra Catic poses under pictures of victims of the genocide in Tuzla, June 11, 2015. Catic is among several thousand of women who still search for the remains of their closest relatives 20 years after the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys. With the help of Edmin Jakubovic who was the last person to see her son injured on the ground, Catic has been constantly searching for her son in the woods. Six months ago, she found a skull and a jaw, but the DNA results are still not available. She fears that if she doesn't find his remains, it will be as he had never existed. All that is left of her son is his picture. Picture is taken on June 11, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Hajra Catic poses under pictures of victims of the genocide in Tuzla, December 23, 2014.
Catic lost her husband and 20 other relatives in the worst massacre on European soil since the World War Two. Bosnia was still digging up the bones of its own when those of others began arriving in boxes from the tsunami-struck shores of Southeast Asia a decade ago. It coincided with Kathryne Bomberger's rise to head of the Bosnian-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), created in 1996 on the initiative of Bill Clinton to unearth the secrets of gruesome death pits strewn across the Bosnian countryside following its 1992-95 war. Picture is taken on December 23, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) 

Bosnian Muslims cry near the coffins of relatives before a mass funeral for bodies found in a mass grave, in Kozarac, near Prijedor, July 19, 2014. The collective burial of 284 Bosnian Muslims and Croats, whose remains were found and identified in a northwestern mass grave and believed to be the largest from Bosnia's 1992-95 war, will take place on Sunday. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie walks through the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

U.S. actress Angelina Jolie reacts with Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague after paying respects to female victims and laying a wreath in front of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

Actress Angelina Jolie reacts after paying respects to female victims and laying a wreath in front of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Haguen (front R) and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie (front L) walk at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS OBITUARY ANNIVERSARY) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Haguen (R) and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie (3rd R) walk at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS OBITUARY ANNIVERSARY) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Haguen and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie stand in front of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS OBITUARY ANNIVERSARY) 

Actress Angelina Jolie reacts in front of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S. actress Angelina Jolie stand in front of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague and actress Angelina Jolie stand in front of Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

Actress Angelina Jolie reacts at Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY HEADSHOT) 

Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in five summer days in 1995, towards the end of a war that erupted in 1992 with the collapse of federal Yugoslavia and claimed 100,000 lives. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT CIVIL UNREST) 

A Bosnian woman cries on the coffin of a relative, which is one of the 409 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica July 11, 2013. The bodies of the recently identified victims will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11 marking the 18th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Bosnian woman tries to find the grave of her relative in Memorial Center Potocari near Srebrenica July 10, 2013. The bodies of the recently identified victims will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11 marking the 18th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: OBITUARY POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

Bosnia Muslims pray near coffins at the Memorial Center in Potocari during a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 11, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacr is buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT OBITUARY SOCIETY) 

Bosnian Muslim women sit and cry near the coffin of their relatives at Memorial Center in Potocari before a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 11, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT OBITUARY ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY) 

Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Center in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Bosnian Muslims carry the coffin of a relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslim women sit near a new open grave which was prepared for the coffin of their relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY) 

A Bosnian Muslim searches new open graves for the coffin of her relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslim women sit and watch graves being prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY) 

A Bosnian Muslim woman cries near a new open grave with the coffin of her relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Center in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A forensic expert of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) works on trying to identify the remains of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre, at the ICMP centre near Tuzla July 9, 2012. Some 520 recently discovered Bosnian Muslim victims' remains from the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11 at the Memorial center in Potocari. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW DISASTER) 

A forensic expert of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP)works on trying to identify the remains of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre, at the ICMP centre near Tuzla July 9, 2012. Some 520 recently discovered Bosnian Muslim victims' remains from the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11 at the Memorial center in Potocari. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW DISASTER) 

A Bosnian man looks for the name of his relatives in one of the three trucks carrying 520 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at Visoko morgue July 9, 2012. The bodies of the recently identified victims will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11 marking the 17th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves.REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY POLITICS OBITUARY) 

Bosnian women touches one of the three trucks carrying 520 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in front of the presidential building in Sarajevo July 9, 2012. The bodies of the recently identified victims will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11 marking the 17th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslims toss 3000 roses in the River Drina, each representing people killed in the 1992-95 war, after a mass funeral in Visegrad, May 26, 2012. The remains of 66 Bosnian Muslims, murdered and dumped in the River Drina 20 years ago, were buried in Visegrad on Saturday in a solemn ceremony marred by a march through the eastern town by Serb veterans of the 1992-95 war. Visegrad is indicative of Bosnia's unhealed wounds 20 years since its war began; the town's majority before the war, just a few hundred Muslims driven out by Bosnian Serb forces and paramilitaries in the first weeks of the war have since returned. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Bosnian Muslim woman cries next to coffins during a mass funeral in Visegrad May 26, 2012. The remains of 66 Bosnian Muslims, murdered and dumped in the River Drina 20 years ago, were buried in Visegrad on Saturday in a solemn ceremony marred by a march through the eastern town by Serb veterans of the 1992-95 war. Visegrad is indicative of Bosnia's unhealed wounds 20 years since its war began; the town's majority before the war, just a few hundred Muslims driven out by Bosnian Serb forces and paramilitaries in the first weeks of the war have since returned. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CONFLICT) 

Mejra Dzogaz prays near the graves of her two sons before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica, May 17, 2012. Mejra's husband, three sons and a grandson were killed during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 by a Serbian army unit commanded by Mladic. The Bosnian Serb general made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebrenica massacre at the start of his trial on Wednesday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Mejra Dzogaz watches the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in her home in Potocari, near Srebrenica, May 17, 2012. Mejra's husband, three sons and a grandson were killed during the Srebrenica Massacre in 1995 by a Serbian army unit commanded by Mladic. The Bosnian Serb general made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebrenica massacre at the start of his trial on Wednesday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic attends his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague May 16, 2012. Mladic, 70, appeared on Wednesday for his genocide trial looking confident, flashing a thumbs-up and clapping his hands as he entered the courtroom. REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters/Pool (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A woman puts flowers on one of the 11,541 red chairs along Titova street in Sarajevo, as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, April 6, 2012. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

A child puts flowers on one of the 11,541 red chairs along Titova street in Sarajevo, as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, April 6, 2012. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) 

A man runs as protestors hold placards marking the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war in Belgrade April 6, 2012. Bosnia on Friday remembered when war broke out 20 years ago and the West dithered in the face of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (SERBIA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

A sign "for sale" is placed onto a war damaged house in an abandoned village by the main road near the town of Derventa March 27, 2007. Bosnia on Friday remembered when war broke out 20 years ago and the West dithered in the face of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two. The anniversary finds the Balkan country deeply divided, power shared uneasily between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in an unwieldy state ruled by ethnic quotas, and languishing behind its ex-Yugoslav neighbours on the long road to the European Union. Picture taken March 27, 2007. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CONFLICT) 

People take pictures near a banner with the number 11,541, to symbolise red chairs, along Titova street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, April 6, 2012. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

Tracks lead to the entrance of the Agrokomerc food factory near Velika Kladusa April 3, 2012. Five gutted houses and a moth-balled factory are all that remains in this northern Bosnian town to recall Fikret Abdic's dramatic fall from grace. That, and the lingering adoration of the people of Velika Kladusa. One of the most controversial figures of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Abdic went from communist to capitalist to warlord and finally convict, jailed for war crimes against fellow Muslims. To match Feature BOSNIA-WARLORD/ REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Bosnian Muslim woman cries on the coffin of a relative during a mass funeral for victims killed during 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, whose remains were found in mass graves around the town of Prijedor and Kozarac, 50 km (31 miles) northwest of Banja Luka July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT OBITUARY) 

Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, watch the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, react as they watch the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A Bosnian Muslim woman from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, watches the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A Bosnian Muslim woman from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, watches the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, react as they watch the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide in the town during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, react as they watch the television broadcast of Ratko Mladic's court proceedings, in Tuzla June 3, 2011. Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic said he defended his people and his country in the Bosnia war and now intended to defend himself against war crimes charges at the U.N.'s Yugoslavia tribunal. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, June 3, 2011. Mladic appeared on Friday before the Yugoslav war crimes court to hear charges of genocide over the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Martin Meissner/Pool (NETHERLANDS - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

A participant holds a photo of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic during a rally to protest against the arrest of Mladic in front of the Serbian embassy in Moscow June 1, 2011. Mladic used his power to commit atrocities that tore a nation apart and destroyed communities, and must be held to account, a U.N. war crimes prosecutor said on Wednesday. Mladic will face genocide charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Friday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST) 

A man cries near coffins before a mass funeral in the village of Memici, about 30 kilometres from Zvornik, June 1, 2011. The remains of eight people, victims of an "ethnic cleansing" campaign that former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is accused of instigating, were retrieved from mass graves in Zvornik and buried during the mass funeral on Wednesday. Mladic, extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia on Tuesday after 16 years on the run, will appear in court on Friday, according to a statement issued by the court on Wednesday. Mladic was indicted over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HEREGOVINA - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY CRIME LAW POLITICS)