A former Bosnian Serb prison camp guard, Goran Jelisic, has gone on trial for genocide before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague.

According to the charge, Jelisic boasted about his activities at a Luka detention camp near the northern Bosnian town Brcko in 1992, and told inmates that he was modelling himself on Adolf Hitler.

Prosecutors say that Bosnian Muslems and Croats were held in the camp in appalling conditions.

If found guilty, Jelisic could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

He already faces a life sentence for acts of murder and torture, but he says he is innocent of the charge of genocide.

This is the second genocide trial to open at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.