Ratko Mladic removed from UN war crimes court The enclave in eastern Bosnia was supposed to be under the protection of Dutch UN peacekeepers when it was overrun by the Bosnian Serb army under Mladic's command on July 11 that year. Over the next few days, children and women were rounded up and forced onto buses while men and boys were murdered and their bodies dumped into mass graves in one of the darkest periods of the Balkans country's brutal three-year war. The witness, who continued with his testimony after Mladic was removed from the courtroom, said he survived the massacre by playing dead. They fired a burst and I dropped to the ground. Another man fell on top of me. I could sense his blood. There were a lot of dead bodies. Brains were splattered all over," said witness RM-346, who, although seriously wounded, managed to flee hours later. Dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia," Mladic, 71, faces 11 charges including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Bosnia's war which left 100,000 dead. The witness said Mladic was present at the killing of a prisoner at a football pitch, where several prisoners were being held before the executions started. "He stood up and said something and was singled out," the witness said, adding "he was beaten with rifle butts and then one of the soldiers took out a handgun and shot him dead." "Mladic was present but did not react at all," the witness claimed. The Srebrenica testimony is expected to last several months, prosecutors said. Mladic has declined to plead to the charges. If convicted, he could face life in prison.