Thursday, February 16, 2012

Serbia Indicts 10 For Allegedly Helping Mladic

Ratko Mladic pictured on posters in Belgrade (epa)

July 14, 2006 -- A Serbian prosecutor has charged 10 people for helping hide UN war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic.

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July 14, 2006

The accused are already in custody.

Mladic is accused of genocide for allegedly orchestrating the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, and for other war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.

Belgrade's failure to capture him has led to the suspension of pre-membership talks with the European Union.

(Reuters, AP)

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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