Ratko Mladic, like Karadzic, has been indicted for genocide [AP]

Mladic, like Karadzic, has been indicted for genocide at Srebrenica, when about 8,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslims were rounded up and murdered in July 1995.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has said on several occasions that he is in hiding in Serbia.

Reports said Mladic was living in or near Belgrade, the Serbian capital, under the protection of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president, until Milosevic's arrest in 2001.

In 2004, further reports suggested that Mladic was living under the protection Bosnian Serb military forces.

The US government had offered a $5m reward for information leading to his arrest, but he has yet to be captured.

Indictments

Other than genocide, Mladic is also charged with the killing, deportation and forcible transfer of non-Serbs in support of "ethnic cleansing" campaigns in Bosnia in 1992 and 1993.

He is accused of the torture, abuse, sexual violence and beatings of Bosnian Muslims, and of creating conditions in detention facilities "calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Bosnian Muslims".

He also faces charges over attempts to conceal the executions of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica by reburying, in isolated locations, bodies exhumed from mass graves.

The indictment alleges that Mladic "was a member of a joint criminal enterprise whose objective was the elimination or permanent removal of Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat, or other non-Serb inhabitants from large areas of (Bosnia and Herzegovina)."

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