Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia, went on trial Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. Prosecutors say Mladic's campaign included the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, according to a report of CNN. The 70-year-old former Serb general has been indicted on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 war. On Monday, his lawyers filed a petition to delay his trial by six months. But the trial opened as scheduled on Wednesday morning.
