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Serbian News Media Say Accused War Criminal Arrested
By MARLISE SIMONS and J. DAVID GOODMAN

PARIS — The Serbian news media reported Thursday morning that the police in Serbia have arrested a man suspected of being Ratko Mladic, the fugitive accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.

Serbia’s President Boris Tadic scheduled an urgent news conference of 7 a.m. Eastern time.

Mr. Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb general, was one of the world’s most wanted criminals, evading capture for more than 15 years despite an increasing international effort to hunt him down.

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Sometimes hiding in plain sight at soccer matches and sometimes deep in the fabric of this secretive city, Mr. Mladic appeared to have spent recent years hidden by no more than a handful of loyalists, investigators and some of his past associates have said. The former leader of the armed forces of the Bosnian Serbs during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s was thought to be last living in New Belgrade, a sprawling extension of the Serbian capital across the Sava River. His diminished circumstances appeared to make him ripe for capture.

Over the years, as European pressure for an arrest intensified and then retreated, he received vital, little known, assistance from Serbian military forces and several of the country’s past governments. The arrest of Mr. Mladic had been a prerequisite for Serbia’s bid to join the European Union, but last year the union voted to move ahead with membership talks with Serbia anyway.
 
mladic is probably old and doesnt care now. he was a terrorist of the worst kind though.

the russians were extremely hypocritical in their support of the serbian regime. on the one hand they supported serb troops taking over bosnia, on the other they protest against georgia.
 
mladic is probably old and doesnt care now. he was a terrorist of the worst kind though.

the russians were extremely hypocritical in their support of the serbian regime. on the one hand they supported serb troops taking over bosnia, on the other they protest against georgia.

he was radovan's right hand man...but he will meet the same fate as his boss...they will both enjoy five star prisons in the hague
 
Mladic is already 68. He enjoyed a considerable amount of freedom. it would be interesting to know the story of how he evaded serbian intelligence agencies.
 

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