Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian-Serb military leader, has apologised to the innocent victims of the Yugoslav wars.

Mladic is currently being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. He is held responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, the largest mass murder in Europe since the end of WWII.

Mladic told the court, "I apologise for the innocent people who were killed on all sides in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. I bow my head for all the innocent people. I didn't want the war. I can't even hear the word war anymore."

(jric/hs)

©Radio Netherlands Worldwide