Ratko Mladic – in pictures

Fugitive Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, wanted by the United Nations on war crimes charges from the Bosnian war, has been arrested in Serbia Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

January 1993: Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic during a meeting with United Nations representatives in Pale, Bosnia Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

12 April 1993: Ratko Mladic is greeted by a French Foreign Legion officer on his arrival at a UN-sponsored meeting of the three warring Bosnian parties Photograph: Reuters

15 February 1994: Mladic speaks to a Serbian soldier at the Lukavica barracks on the outskirts of Sarajevo six days before the Nato ultimatum for Serbia to end its siege of the city or face bombing Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images

16 April 1994: Ratko Mladic monitors a battle against Muslim forces near the Bosnian city of Gorazde Photograph: STAFF/Reuters

27 August 1994: Mladic in Banja Luka, which eventually became the administrative city of the Republika Srpska enclave in Bosnia and Herzegovina Photograph: Ranko Cukovic/Reuters

15 June 1995: Bosnian Muslim refugees on the runway of Tuzla airport as they flee Srebrenica Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

13 July 1995: Refugees from Srebrenica look through the razor wire at a UN base south of Tuzla Photograph: Darko Bandic/AP

14 July 1995: Dutch UN peacekeepers sit on an armoured carrier while Muslim refugees from Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, gather in the village of Potocari, just north of Srebrenica. More than 30,000 Mulsims fled Srebrenica after the Bosnian Serb army overran the area Photograph: AP

16 July 1995: A Bosnian Serb armed vehicle drives through the deserted streets of Srebrenica after the Bosnian Serbs took the UN safe area a week earlier. More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Serb forces after the fall of Srebrenica in what is considered Europe's worst atrocity since the second world war Photograph: Igor Dutina/EPA

1995: Ratko Mladic walks away from a helicopter Photograph: Zambounis/Zamur/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

1 September 1995: Mladic plays pool in the town of Mali Zvornik, 110 miles south-west of Belgrade Photograph: Sava Radovanovic/AP

September 1995: Ratko Mladic Photograph: Zambounis/Zamur/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

24 December 1995: A Bosnian Serb woman mourns in Sarajevo at the grave of her son who was killed at the nearby frontline in the city's Serb-held suburbs Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AFP/Getty Images

4 February 1996: Journalists at a site where four Muslim soldiers died in Srebrenica Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

5 July 1996: A forensics officer places a number next to the skull of a victim in the hills above the village of Kravice, 10 miles north-west of Srebrenica Photograph: Staton R Winter/AP

2 March 2000: Wanted poster released by the US state department in Washington showing Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic Photograph: George Bridges/AFP/Getty Images

10 July 2004: Coffins containing the bodies of 335 victims of Srebrenica are displayed in an abandoned hall of a car battery factory at Potocari before their funeral Photograph: Amel Emric/AP

22 February 2006: A newspaper shows the fugitive Ratko Mladic and carries the story that Serbia is not negotiating his surrender Photograph: Srdjan Ilic/AP

22 February 2006: Media reports said Ratko Mladic was hiding out at Cer mountain, 60 miles west of Belgrade on the border with Bosnia, and negotiations were under way on his surrender Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

26 February 2007: A forensic expert from the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) examines a skull near Tuzla while trying to identify Srebrenica victims Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

11 June 2009: Video footage allegedly showing Ratko Mladic (centre) Photograph: EPA

10 July 2009: A Muslim woman prays beside the coffin of her relative among 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre lined up for a joint burial in Potocari Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

26 May 2011: A motorcade allegedly transporting ex-army chief Ratko Mladic arrives at the special court for war crimes in Belgrade Photograph: Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images

26 May 2011: Mladic in a photograph taken in Belgrade Photograph: Reuters

26 May 2011: Mladic arrives at special court in Belgrade. Bosnian Serb wartime general Mladic was arrested in Lazarevo in the early hours after years on the run from international genocide charges Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters

28 May 2011: A man rides a bicycle past the house where Mladic was found in the village of Lazarevo Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

29 May 2011: Bosiljka Mladic, left, wife of Ratko Mladic, and their son Darko Mladic listen to the national anthem during a rally organised by the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical party in front of the parliament building on in Belgrade Photograph: Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images

29 May 2011: Children hold pictures of Mladic during a protest in support of him in Kalinovik Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters