Serbia Announces Arrest of Top War Crimes Suspect Mladic
Serbian war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested, Serbia’s president announced today.
Mladic has been on the run since he was accused by a United Nations war crimes tribunal of masterminding the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, report the Associated Press, CNN and the New York Times.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has charged Mladic with several war crimes, including genocide and murder. Mladic was a military commander in the Balkan wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Mladic was reportedly living under an assumed name when he was arrested based on a tip that he had Mladic’s identification documents and looked like the former Bosnian Serb general, the Times says, citing Serbian news reports.
DNA confirmed Mladic’s identity, according to Croatian media reports cited by AP. However CNN cites a different report that DNA tests are ongoing.
