Thursday, May 26, 2011

Top war crimes suspect Mladic arrested in Serbia!

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Reuters
By Aleksandar Vasovic | Reuters – 1 hour 21 minutes ago




A woman walks past graffiti of Bosnian Serb fugitive general Ratko Mladic in Belgrade June 11, 2009. REUTERS/Marko Djurica/Files



BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on Thursday after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream.
The general, accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and a brutal 43-month siege of Sarajevo during Bosnia's 1992-5 war, was found in a farmhouse owned by a relative, a police official said.
"On behalf of the Republic of Serbia I can announce the arrest of Ratko Mladic. The extradition process is under way," Serbian President Boris Tadic told reporters in Belgrade.
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