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Report: Serbian police searches for war criminals
Dec 12, 2008, 9:46 GMT
Belgrade - Serbian police Friday launched a second raid in a week in the so far futile search for war crime fugitives, the private Beta news agency said.
Police were checking several locations in Arandjelovac, a town 50 kilometres south of Belgrade, Beta said, quoting the Serbian war crimes prosecutor's office.
A week ago, commandos raided the Belgrade home of the top war crime suspect Ratko Mladic's son, after storming a factory in western Serbia last month.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime military chief, is a crucial condition for Serbia's closer ties with the European Union.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) charged Mladic, allegedly responsible for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, with genocide for atrocities committed by his forces during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Belgrade officials insisted that they are unaware of Mladic's whereabouts, but eventually admitted that he had military protection even after the strongman president Slobodan Milosevic fell in 2000.
The ICTY chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz is scheduled to report on Belgrade's cooperation with The Hague-based tribunal to the United Nations on Friday.
The EU placed a pre-accession treaty it signed with Serbia last year until Mladic and the other remaining fugitive, the Croatian Serb leader from the 1990s Goran Hadzic, are brought to justice.
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To mr. 'ProudSerb' - you are a sad pathetic loser who looks up to a genocidal maniac fasicst nazi like Mladic, milosevic, and karadzic.
Anyone who is proud of someone responsible for the slaughter of 250,000 bosnian civilians, rape of 50,000 bosnian women, and ethnic cleansing of 2,000,000 bosnian civilians deserves the fate that milosevic, kardazic, and sooner or later mladic will surely have.
'Greater Serbia' is officially dead and now that you have lost Kosova only Vovojdina is next!
to chris26 -- you do not know the history of the balkans, past present and future. The Bosnian muslim leader-Izetbegovic started the bosnian war - he wanted to establish a sharia state, think the taliban. The croatian leader-Trudman wanted to finish what the croatian nazis started in WWII. By the way , the first extermination camps in europe during WWII were in fact started by the Usteshi(Croatian Nazis) as a way to liquadate the Serb civilian population in their areas of control. The German Army officers were at first appalled by what they saw but later the SS liked the idea so much they came up with the Holocaust( Final Solution). By the way, the albanian and bosnian(i.e. Muslim) population also joined the SS and had their own units. The communists-Tito never properly addressed these crimes perpetrated against the Serbs so then you had a backlash some 60 years later. Until these real nazis (Croatians-Albanians-Bosnians) repent and stop acting the same way they have always acted, proud serbs will always be around to try to stop them.
Dear Mr.Chris26,
Bismarck and Third Reich left Serbian Lands, Fourth Reich will as well!
We survived the Otomans, we will survive and PROSPER when the Anglo-American Beast goes to their HOMELANDS as well!
Have a great Day
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proud_SerbianDec 13th, 2008 - 08:10:53
General Mladic will always be Serbian hero, we have had many satraps and quislings in our history. Tadici and his gang are just the latest one.
Long live General Mladic!
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