YUGOSLAV TRIBUNAL:
The prosecution accuses Tolimir of having the "intent to destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national or religious group".

THE HAGUE - Bosnian Serb ex-general Zdravko Tolimir went on trial for genocide Friday for the killings of thousands of Muslims, the last trial to start of an accused in the custody of the UN's Yugoslav tribunal. "This case is about Zdravko Tolimir's choice to forsake his duty to abide by the rules of war in pursuit of a mono-ethnic Serb state," prosecutor Nelson Thayer told judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

Tolimir, the prosecutor said, took part in an "unrelenting plan" to expel the Muslim population from the Srebrenica and Zepa enclaves, "by making their lives so unbearable that they had no hope for survival there". Also, "he assisted, supported and authorized the organized detention, execution and burial of thousands of Muslim men and boys."

Tolimir, 61, was one of seven deputy commanders to wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, still wanted by the tribunal 15 years after he was indicted. The former general, arrested on May 31, 2007 in Bosnia-Hercegovina, is accused of committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity between July and November 1995, for the massacres of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the towns of Srebrenica and Zepa. This includes the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

The prosecution accuses Tolimir of having the "intent to destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national, ethnical or religious group". He was responsible for intelligence and security for the Bosnian Serb army at the time. The start of Tolimir's trial had been delayed several times due to his poor health. He has pleaded not guilty and has chosen to conduct his own defense.

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