A TIMELINE OF EVENTS LEADING TO THE MLADIC VERDICT:
1995:
* July 25 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicts Mladic and wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic.
* November 21 - The United States brokers the Dayton Accords that formally end Europe's worst conflict since World War II, with 100,000 dead and two million homeless.
* 2000 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic toppled. Successors hand the former strongman over to the ICTY in 2001.
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* 2006 - A Serbian military intelligence report discloses that Mladic was using army premises until mid-2002. The EU suspends talks on relations with Serbia over its failure to arrest war crimes fugitives. Milosevic dies in prison before his trial is completed.
* 2008 - Serbian authorities arrest a disguised Karadzic and extradite him to the ICTY in The Hague.
* 2010 - Mladic's family launch court proceedings in Serbia to declare him dead, saying he had been in poor health and they had had no contact with him for over five years.
2011:
* May - Mladic is arrested in northern Serbia and extradited to the ICTY.
* June 3 - Mladic calls the charges against him "obnoxious" and "monstrous words". He declines to enter a plea, saying he needs more time to study the charges.
* July 4 - Judge Alphons Orie removes Mladic from the courtroom after he refuses to listen to the charges. Orie enters a not-guilty plea on Mladic's behalf on all 11 charges against him.
* 2012 - Mladic's trial begins.
* 2013 - Mladic is removed from court for challenging harrowing testimony from a survivor of the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica of 8000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces.
* 2014:
* January 28 - Mladic appears as a witness against his will in the trial of Karadzic and sidesteps questions from his old ally.
* April 5 - The ICTY upholds a life sentence against Zdravko Tolimir, the former head of intelligence who reported directly to Mladic, for genocide over Srebrenica.
* 2016:
* March 24 - The ICTY convicts Karadzic of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre and sentences him to 40 years.
* December - Closing arguments in Mladic's trial.
* 2017 - Convicted of 10 of 11 charges and sentenced to life in prison.
