he was the speaker of the serb parliament and, having served his punishment, accepts people on his sideuch of the war, the bosnian serb leadership successfully kept the outside world at bay. sometimes intimidating un troops, at others firing on or even taking them hostage. piano music. but across in the east of the country, events reached a tipping point in the final year of the war. the genocide indictment against general ratko mladic divides his crimes into various phases. the early part of the war around prijedor, north—west bosnia. then the siege of sarajevo in the centre. and then, finally, the enormous catalogue of crimes that took place in this place in 1995. srebrenica. music continues. the un had declared the srebrenica enclave to be a safe area. but in fact, as mladic planned its capture, the dutch un troops who were meant to defend it had been abandoned by their higher commanders. mladic savoured his triumph, and recalled past defeats of the serbs by the ottoman turks. srebrenica was overrun, and more than 20,000 frightened muslim women and children crammed into the dutch bas