Ex-Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic has called the charges against him 'monstrous' and 'obnoxious', as he faces the UN war crimes tribunal for the first time.

The sixty nine year old, who claims he is 'gravely ill', says he will not enter a pleas.

He is charged with atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica