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Serbia Arrests Two In Mladic Hunt

May 05, 2006

Posters in Belgrade showing Ratko Mladic (epa)

Posters in Belgrade showing Ratko Mladic (epa)

May 5, 2006 -- Serbian police today arrested two more people suspected of helping fugitive war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic.


Police also searched the home of Darko Mladic, the son of the former Bosnian Serb commander.


The EU on May 3 suspended talks on closer ties with Serbia and Montenegro because of Serbia's failure to arrest Mladic and transfer him to the UN war crimes tribunal.


(compiled from agency reports)

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The Fugitives

Ratko Mladic (left) confers with Radovan Karadzic during a meeting in Pale in 1993 (epa)

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Ten years have passed since former Bosnian Serb leader RADOVAN KARADZIC and his former military commander General RATKO MLADIC were indicted by the Hague-based war crimes tribunal for genocide and other war crimes. The two fugitives remain at large, despite the obligation of NATO-led peacekeepers and the various governments in the region to arrest the indictees and send them to The Hague. Many people wonder why the most powerful military alliance in history and a host of governments seeking Euro-Atlantic integration remain unable to catch the two... (more)


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