The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said today the trial of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, which was due to resume on June 25th, was suspended until further notice.
Mladic, who was arrested in Serbia in May 2011 after 16 years on the run, is accused of genocide for his role in the siege of Bosnia's capital Sarajevo and for allegedly orchestrating the 1995 killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.
The court decided to suspend proceedings because of an error in disclosing documents to the defense team, the court said in a
statement.
In their opening remarks to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Hague last month, prosecutors showed footage of civilians as they fled sniper fire in Sarajevo and of thousands of Muslims being herded onto buses and deported from Srebrenica.
The first witness was due to testify on May 29th, but Mladic's defence lawyer Branko Lukic asked for a six-month delay because he said his team did not receive all the evidence from the prosecutor in time.
Reuters