It's an awfully long time since the terrible civil war in Bosnia Herzegovina ended.

It was in 1995 in fact.

And you might be forgiven for thinking that the crimes of that conflict are all tried and done and dusted.

But actually the international war crimes process is just about to come to a close

with a sort of climactic verdict on General Radcliffe, the commander of

Bosnian Serb forces.

Now of course it took them many years to find him because he was in hiding and it then took them six years to find him because he was in hiding and it then took them six years to try him

because it was a complex and enormous case with hundreds of witnesses and a great schedule of crimes and during that time. of So it really has been a bit of an epic, but now it's coming to a close, which is why I've been

back to Bosnia to talk to people who were victims of his crimes, but also some who were serving alongside him.

Thank you for listening to this program.

In the 1990s,

in the 1990s, who were killed in the night. They would load the bodies onto a truck can drive them away.

25 years ago I covered Bosnia's war and now I'm returning there. I'm Mark Urban and this is assignment on the BBC World Service.

In order to escape its terrible past, the country must now confront it again.

As the Bosnian-Serb military commander, General Ratko-Mladic,

awaits imminent judgment on the most serious

catalog of crimes of the entire war.

I went to the Hague to testify so the world will know that after Hitler this was another Hitler.

Naddich, Karadich.

Karadich.

The Bosnian Serb political leader Radavan Karadich was found guilty last year of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Tribunal in the Hague and he was sentenced to 40 years

in prison.

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