Video: Srebrenica forensic specialist: grieving process can start now Mladic is on trial Mr McNeil, lead forensic technician for the United Nations in Bosnia in the aftermath of the Balkan wars, said the relatives of those massacred during the conflict could not grieve until the perpertrators were brought to justice. Now retired, Mr McNeil was speaking as Ratko Mladic finally prepares to stand trial in the Hague on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the country's devastating 1992-95 war. Back in August 1996, Mr McNeil was asked by the UN to form part of the first international forensic team to investigate war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The team were sent to identify bodies in a makeshift mortuary in a bombed-out factory in Tuzla with no electricity or running water. "What became known as the women of Srebrenica would gather there in the hope that we somehow would be able to give them back their loved ones," Mr McNeil said. They were desperate to know whether they were still alive or if they were dead. They would never begin to grieve until all of the perpertrators, from the lowest to the highest, were on trial.