BELGRADE (Reuters) – Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia Thursday after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream.
Mladic, 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 cousin, a police official said.
Horrible tales of genocide have come out of the Bosnian Serb war. In fact, it was those stories and accompanying proof of genocide that prompted the world community to become involve in the on-going hostilities from that Balkan region.
Mladic was using an anagram of his own name and has been shown dancing in public in Serbia. He wasn’t all that hidden. Video footage from the Bosnian war show Mladic at his most malevolent. Hopefully the international war crimes tribunal will find him guilty and deal with him harshly. Many people in Serbia still see Mladic as a hero. Serbia has been blocked from joining the European Union because this war criminal has not been apprehended.
Hopefully, Colonel Morris Davis can keep us updated.
