Erstellt am: 16. 5. 2012 - 15:32 Uhr

The Butcher of the Balkans

Reality Check: Mladic on trial; MSF secretly in Syria; Iranian Rapper in Germany facing death threats

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Ratko Mladic sits in the courtroom during his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal. Photo: Toussaint Kluiters/ANP Pool

Mladic on Trial

To his Muslim and Croat victims, he's the "Butcher of the Balkans". Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who is accused of orchestrating not only the week-long massacre of 8,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, but also the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, in which more than 10,000 people were killed by snipers, machine guns and heavy artillery.

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Forensic experts exhume a mass grave in Bosnia believed to contain bodies of Srebrenica massacre victims. Photo: Fehim Demir/EPA

Mladic is facing 11 charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. They relate to his actions as the Serb military commander in the Bosnian war of 1992-95. He's facing two counts of genocide as well as murder, acts of terror and crimes against humanity. He cuts a much frailer figure now than his strutting wartime persona, but he appears to have lost none of his defiance, flashing a thumps-up as he entered the courtroom.

Correspondent Lauren Comiteau was watching the proceedings:

MSF & Syria

Doctors Without Borders recently sent two undercover staff into medical centres in Syrria. They witnessed the horrendous conditions that medical staff have to work under:

Greece

New elections have been announced so what is going to happen? And why is there so much support for the leftist Syriza party, since in rejecting the bailout deals so far, it's being seen as putting Greece's membership of the Euro in danger? Helena Smith reports from Athens:

The Iranian Rapper

Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who's based in Germany, is fearing for his life after a fatwa was issued. Saba Farzan is following his story:

Ukraine: an in and out story

Ahead of the Euro2012 soccer tournament which Ukraine is co-hosting this summer, Eugene Quinn has just returned from the country. How does migration affect Ukraine currently? Eugene tells us about people coming in and going out of country.

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