Gen Ratko Mladic (56), commander of the Bosnian Serb army, now understood to be commanding paramilitaries in Kosovo, is one of the most wanted indicted war criminals of the Bosnian conflict.
He is suspected of contributing to the execution, rape and torture of thousands of Muslim people during the Bosnian war.
He, along with the Bosnian Serb leader at the time, Mr Radovan Karadzic, was indicted for the Srebrenica genocide of 1995 and the three-year siege of Sarajevo. Crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war are also listed among the accusations made by the UN war crimes prosecutors in November 1995.
It is strongly suspected that the horrific massacre of up to 10,000 male Muslims in Srebrenica was executed by forces under his own control, as well as the mass murders of Muslims in Potocari and Karakaj. It is thought that the short, stocky man, who has called himself "the Napoleon of Bosnia" is one of the pivotal players in the Bosnian Serb leadership.
Gen Mladic was born on March 12th, 1943, in Herzegovina. His father was killed by Croatian fascists shortly before the end of the second World War. After graduating from military academy in 1965, he rose up the ranks until, as the former Yugoslavia began to fall apart in 1991, he was sent to Knin to lead the Yugoslav army there.
He is revered by his soldiers, whom he led to capture huge swathes of Croatian and then Bosnian territory.