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Toby Sterling, Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch

REVEALED: Ex bosnian serb commander mladic faces verdict in genocide trial | Rare Historical Photos

Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic reacts in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands in this still image taken from a video released by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), November 22, 2017. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)/Handout via REUTERS

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A U.N. tribunal on Wednesday convicted ex-Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for massacres of Bosnian Muslims and ethnic cleansing campaigns to forge a "Greater Serbia", and jailed him for life.

Mladic, 74, was hustled out of the court minutes before the verdict for bellowing "this is all lies, you are all liars" after returning from what his son described as a blood pressure test which delayed the reading-out of the judgement.

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