► http://www.icty.org/sid/10673
► http://www.icty.org/action/press/6
► http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bosnia502/profiles_hadzic.html
► http://www.interpol.int/public/data/wanted/notices/data/2001/62/2001_19862.asp
► http://www.time.com/time/daily/bosnia/bosniatimeline.html
► http://www.pes.org/en/news/pes-welcomes-serbia-s-detention-war-criminal-mladic
► http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/theheartshapedland.wbsp
RATKO MLADIC
Bosnian Serb Commander 1992-1995. Was charged with two cases of genocide in the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre at Srebrenica. Born March 1942, was arrested May 26, 2011.
► INTERPOL lauds Serbian arrest of fugitive Balkans war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic :: http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2011/PR045.asp
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Adriaan Zef
From The Times
February 28, 2006
The graveside bench that could snare most wanted war criminal
By Peter Wilson in Belgrade
Is Serbian authorities had really wanted to catch Ratko Mladic over the past decade a smart place to start would have been a well-kept grave site in Belgrade's Topcider cemetery.
While police and intelligence services have supposedly been scouring the nation for the man who masterminded the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica, General Mladic has regularly been spotted visiting the grave of his daughter Ana.
Last Friday, as 10,000 Mladic supporters from the nationalist Radical Party gathered a few miles away in main square in Belgrade to protest against international demands that the former Bosnian Serb general must finally be handed over, Ana's grave was once again unmonitored.
A few people wrapped in heavy jackets quietly cleaned other graves dotted around the cemetery, which is spread over a wooded hillside in the city's south-east suburbs, but nobody paid any attention to Ana's resting place or the wooden bench installed beside it.
A chilly wind had sprinkled pine needles over the grave. Somebody had recently placed two fresh bouquets of purple flowers on its grey granite, which bears a simple inscription in Cyrillic script: the family name and then "Ana 1971-1994." The death of Ana, a beautiful medical student, from a single gunshot to the head left her doting father deeply depressed and the Serbian public intrigued by her apparent suicide and its impact on General Mladic.
Munira Subasic, a Muslim widow from Srebrenica, has had more cause than most to wonder about General Mladic's behaviour after Ana's death.
"There have been thousands of nights when I have laid in my bed unable to sleep, asking myself how he could lose his daughter like that and then inflict the same pain on other parents," she said in an interview in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
"This was a human being who had felt the pain that only a parent can, and then he killed so many other children, destroyed so many other parents . . . Losing his daughter should have sent him on the right path. Instead it sent him twice as far on the wrong path — perhaps it somehow made him more brutal and unable to care about other people's pain."
Ms Subasic, talking in an office run by a support group of Srebrenica widows, was speaking from terrible experience. On July 12, 1995, she tearfully pleaded face to face with Mladic in Potocari, a village outside Srebrenica, to save the life of her son Nermin, 19.
General Mladic had just led his men into the "safe haven" which was supposedly protected by Dutch peacekeepers, and addressed a terrified crowd in front of Serbian television cameras. Standing in an open car park, General Mladic assured the thousands of families who had been herded together that they would be safe, even as his ethnic Serbian troops began the ominous process of separating males aged 12 to 70 from their women and children.
"There was already the smell of blood in the air, and when Mladic stopped talking and the cameras went off I pushed forward and begged him to spare Nermin because he was ill. He looked me in the eyes, asked my son's name and said he would be safe. Then he cheated me."
Ms Subasic's friend Kada Kotic was also standing just two or three yards from General Mladic. She heard him turn to his bodyguards and other soldiers clustered around him and say, "Brothers, use this chance well because we will never have an opportunity like this again."
Their "opportunity" was to wipe out any possibility of future resistance by exterminating most of the men of Srebrenica. Ms Subasic's son was dragged away and never seen again. Her husband Hilmo, 50, an engineer, was found in a mass grave.
The Mladic family's own tragedy had come just over a year earlier. Ana had always been close to her father, a career soldier admired by his men for his willingness to eat and sleep with the ordinary troops.
A former senior official in the Serbian Government said that during a family celebration in the 1980s — when General Mladic had been a mid-ranking officer in the army of the united Yugolsavia — he had taken out his favourite pistol, won as an award at military school, and declared that he would only ever fire it to celebrate the birth of a Mladic grandson.
Ana allegedly replied that in that case she would keep the Mladic name when she married so that her father could one day fire the gun when she had a son.
General Mladic orchestrated the siege and shelling of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, which would eventually claim at least 12,000 lives.
Ana died on March 24, 1994, with conflicting accounts saying her body was found in her blood-splattered bedroom, in a nearby park or in the woods near the Topcider cemetery. All accounts agreed that she was killed with her father’s treasured pistol.
Some of General Mladic's supporters claimed that she had been depressed about the vilification of her father over atrocities committed by his troops. His critics contend that she took her life after being horrified by her father's actions, perhaps even making her own tragic protest. Family members said she had always been ebullient until a study trip to Russia a few months earlier, which had left her depressed.
In Russia she may have been exposed for the first time to independent news reports about the atrocities being committed in the Balkans. The one-sided nature of Serbian media coverage was such that many Serbs were genuinely shocked last year by the broadcast of newly uncovered video footage showing Bosnian Serb troops killing civilian men at Srebrenica.
A third theory about Ana's death — one widely held in Belgrade — is that she was murdered by hardline political or security forces who wanted to keep General Mladic in line. Proponents of that theory point out that it is unusual for a woman to choose a handgun when committing suicide, and that it was hard to believe she would use her father’s favourite pistol to do so.
Whatever the truth, it was after her death that Mladic is accused of ordering the murders, mass rapes and "ethnic cleansing" that became the biggest bloodbath in Europe since the Second World War.
According to Serbian media accounts, the distraught father asked the military doctor who performed the post-mortem examination, Zoran Stankovic, to retrieve the bullet from Ana's brain and to cut off her hair so he could keep both for ever.
Mr Stankovic later told a Serbian magazine that he had formed a special bond with General Mladic, as he had done occasionally with families for whom he had performed autopsies. Mr Stankovic is now the Serbian Defence Minister whose forces have failed repeatedly to capture General Mladic.
The minister indignantly denies going soft in the hunt but his ministry was recently forced to admit that General Mladic had been allowed to keep drawing his military pension while supposedly on the run, and that serving and former members of the military had helped to shield him.
* Peter Wilson is Europe correspondent of The Australian
source : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article735682.ece
Adriaan Zef : If he is proven guilty, the punishment for him is life imprisonment, because the EU does not recognize the death penalty.
Adriaan Zef
Timeline 26 May 2011 / 13:26
Timeline: Ratko Mladic
Timeline of events leading up to the arrest of Ratko Mladic.
Bojana Barlovac
1943
Ratko Mladic was born in the village of Bozinovici in Bosnia.
1945
His father, a military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was killed while leading a partisan attack on the home village of Croatian WWII puppet state leader Ante Pavelic.
1961
He entered the Military Academy in Belgrade.
1965
Upon graduation, he began his career as a second lieutenant. He went on to command a platoon, a battalion and a brigade.
August 1989
He was promoted to head of the Education Department of the Third Military District of Skopje.
June 1991
He became Deputy Commander of the Pristina Corps in Kosovo and soon after commander of the 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People’s Army, leading it against Croatian forces in the town of Knin.
October 1991
Mladic became Major General of the Yugoslav People’s Army which, under his command, fought in the Croatian war.
August 1991
He helped Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic's paramilitary forces to besiege the village of Kijevo.
April 1992
Mladic was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel General.
May 2, 1992
A month after the Bosnian Republic announced its independence, Mladic and his generals blockaded the city of Sarajevo, beginning the four-year siege of the city.
May 9, 1992
He assumed the post of Chief of Staff/Deputy Commander of the Second Military District Headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army in Sarajevo. The following day, Mladic took command of the Second Military District Headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army.
May 12, 1992
In response to Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia, the separatist Bosnian Serb parliament voted to create the Army of Republika Srpska, appointing Mladic as Commander of the Main Staff.
March 1994
His daughter, Ana Mladic, committed suicide in Belgrade with her father’s treasured pistol.
June 1994
Mladic was promoted to the rank of Colonel General.
July 1995
Troops commanded by Mladic occupied the UN-protected enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa, killing over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and committing the ethnic cleansing of 25,000-30,000 refugees in the Srebrenica area.
August 1995
The President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Radovan Karadzic, demoted Mladic to the rank of advisor, accusing him of the loss of two key Serb towns in western Bosnia that had recently fallen to the Croats.
November 1996
The President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Biljana Plavsic, dismissed Mladic from his post although he continued receiving a pension until November 2005.
July 1995
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) accused Mladic of genocide, crimes against humanity and numerous war crimes.
November 1995
The ICTY expanded the charges to include genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the attack on Srebrenica. He was also charged with the taking of hostages amongst UN peacekeepers.
March 2000
He was reportedly seen in a private box, surrounded by eight bodyguards, at a football match between China and Yugoslavia in Belgrade.
March 2000
His professional army service was officially ended by a decree from the Republic of Srpska President Mirko Sarovic.
January 2002
The US General Secretary offered a five million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Hague indictees Mladic and Karadzic.
June 2002
The Serbian parliament passed a law mandating cooperation with the ICTY.
December 2004
It was revealed in that the Serbian Army had been harboring and protecting Mladic until 2004.
June 2005
Human Rights Watch calls on Serbia, the EU and NATO to fulfill their legal and moral obligations and hand over Mladic and Karadzic, saying that "the victims of Srebrenica should not have to wait another decade for justice."
December 2005
The Serbian Defense Ministry confirmed that Mladic received an army pension from Serbia-Montenegro until November 2005.
February 2006
The Romanian government, along with various foreign and domestic media outlets, reported that Mladic was arrested in Romania, close to the Serbian border by a joint Romanian-British special operation. ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte denied the rumours of Mladic’s arrest, urging the Serbian government to find him without further delay.
September 2006
Serbian authorities prosecuted people suspected of hiding Mladic. A web of his former colleagues from the Bosnian Serb Army, friends and relatives who had been helping Mladic was revealed along with the fact he had lived in a building in Yuri Gagarin Street for more than a year.
April 2006
The Serbian and Montenegrin parliament adopted the Law on Freezing the Assets of Hague Indictees.
May 2006
Talks between Serbia and EU were suspended after the Serbian government failed to meet the EU deadline to hand over Mladic.
June 2006
There was speculation that Mladic had recently suffered a third stroke and that he had low chances of survival.
July 2006
The Serbian government adopted an Action Plan for Future ICTY Cooperation.
May 2007
The Serbian nationalist NGO Serbian National Movement 1389 put up fake street signs in Belgrade, renaming a boulevard after fugitive Mladic. The street was renamed the week before in tribute to late reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in 2003. Several hundred Serbian Radical Party followers gathered in Belgrade after it to show their support for Mladic.
October 2007
Serbia offered a reward of €1 million for information leading to the location or arrest of Mladic.
January 2009
The Serbian National Movement 1389 put up posters naming so-called “true Serbs”, among them Mladic. A poll of 1,050 people in Serbia revealed that two-thirds of Serbs would not turn in Mladic.
June 2009
Bosnian state television broadcast several video clips showing Mladic living freely in Serbia. The President of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajic confirmed that the footage was old and was handed over to the ICTY in March 2009.
June 16, 2010
Mladic’s family filed a request to declare him dead in accordance with the law as he has been absent for seven years
May 19, 2010
The ICTY prosecutor said he had received Mladic's diaries from Serbia in May. The diaries are considered to be key pieces of evidence in several ongoing trials at the UN war crimes tribunal.
October 28, 2010
The Serbian government increased by tenfold a reward for information leading to the arrest of the most wanted war crimes suspect in the Balkans.
November 2, 2010
Serbian police searched three locations (two in Belgrade and one in Arandjelovac) where people close to Mladic are believed to be located.
May 26, 2011
Serbian police arrest Ratko Mladic in Serbia.
***
source : http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/timeline-ratko-mladic
Adriaan Zef
Some people believe, not only the network of Serbian military and security officials who have made Mladic free to roam, but also the reluctance of international community, at least in the first years. NATO Members avoided the actions that could threaten the peace after war, that was still fragile. I think there was a kind of collective reluctance among Nato military commanders and their command was not only American but also British command. They feared that if they acted against Ratko Mladic, would be no major political disruption or other disruptions. But as soon as time passed, the West became increasingly hard determination to imprison him and increased its pressure on Serbia. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague said it was confident that he was hiding in Serbia for years, "within reach" the authorities in Belgrade.
Jan Pepijn Servaas : Ratko Mladic's Interview
● Part 1/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_XTZ9Gk-K8
● Part 2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmvaV8u1ALw&feature=related
● Part 3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZybglsQVA&feature=related
● Part 4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJr5YwBKg7g
● Part 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7MbqpnyY8
Jan Pepijn Servaas: Does he have a complaint about the "ministry" in prison?
Lakshmi Lavanya : C, there are some similarities between you and Mladic: watching TV, eating strawberries and reading Leo Tolstoy's books
Almira Izzati : "I came here today to see if his eyes are still bloody," said Munira Subasic, whose 18-year-old son and husband were both killed by Serb forces in Srebrenica.
"In 1995 I begged him to let my son go. He listened to me and promised to let him go. I trusted him at that moment. Sixteen years later, I am still searching for my son's bones."
"Mladic didn't look like a cold-blooded murderer when I spoke to him at the time," said Subasic. :: http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/06/03/idINIndia-57476620110603
More Recent News
(Added by me on October 10, 2011)
► http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15253968
Ratko Mladic treated in hospital
www.bbc.co.uk
Bosnian Serb war crimes defendant Ratko Mladic is being treated in hospital, with reports suggesting he is suffering from pneumonia.
GORAN HADZIC
President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia from 1991 to 1993. Was charged with 14 cases of war crimes and humanity. Born September 1958, a fugitive since July 2004.
► http://www.interpol.int/public/data/wanted/notices/data/2001/62/2001_19862.asp
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
1989-1997 President of the Republic of Serbia. Was indicted as a Croatia and Kosovo war criminal; the massacres in Bosnia. Born: August 1941. Arrested 2001. Died in prison 2006.
► http://www.icty.org/case/slobodan_milosevic/4
RADOVAN KARADZIC
President of the Republic of Srpska from 1992 to 1996. Was charged
with 11 cases for war crimes, including genocide. Born in June 1945, was arrested July 21, 2008.
► http://www.interpol.int/public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2008/PR200836ES.asp
Bullet taken from the Luka detention facility near Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bombing Destruction. Bombed mosque in Ahmići, Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1993.
Camps; Exhibit illustrating Hangar 6 in the Čelebići camp as described by a Serb inmate (red crosses mark murder scenes).
Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Bodies of people killed in April 1993 around Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Bodies of people killed in April 1993 around Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Field Investigations and Evidentiary Material; Ligature used to bind victims hands in Srebrenica, unearthed during an exhumation in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bombing Destruction; Aerial photo depicting destroyed mosques around Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bombing Destruction; Destruction of the bridge leading into Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovin
Ethnic composition in BiH by municipality 1991
A United Nations peacekeeper from Norway holds his helmet as a Hercules C-130 transport plane lands at Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992.
Ethnica Majorities in Bosnia by area. Yellow: Croat; Green: Muslim; Red: Serb; Taupe: No Majority present.
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Almira Izzati
Do not miss this one : http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=204344 .... Alexander Zvtkovic is suspected of involvement in a 1995 massacre during which thousands of Muslims were murdered in eastern Bosnia.
Israel clears way for Serb's extradition hearings
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/19/2011 17:18
An Israeli judge has cleared the way for Israeli prosecutors to try to extradite a former Bosnian Serb soldier back to his homeland to face genocide charges.
A Jerusalem judge on Wednesday ordered Aleksander Cvetkovic to remain in jail during extradition proceedings. The 42-year-old Cvetkovic covered his face with his hands as he entered the courtroom for the hearing.
Cvetkovic was arrested on Tuesday following a Bosnian extradition request accusing him of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where more than 8,000 Muslim men were killed.
His attorney says he "stands on his innocence."
Bosnia says he was part of a firing squad that executed between 1,000 and 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo Farm in July 1995. The request for his extradition was submitted by the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina on August 29, 2010.
Cvetkovic immigrated to Israel with his wife and children in 2006 and received Israeli citizenship because his wife is Jewish. He was living in Carmiel and worked in a factory and in construction before his arrest.
(SOURCE : JPost
: http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/SearchResults.aspx?q=Alexander+Zvtkovic )
Pranay Suresh : Milorad Komadic ( pseudonym of Ratko Mladic ) :: Extradition procedure to last "2 to 4 days"
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=30&nav_id=74654
Jan Pepijn Servaas
Focus on Mladic:
● Mercy for a monster: Mladic visits grave of daughter who killed herself with his pistol as he faces extradition 'within 24 hours'::
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392673/Mladic-taken-grave-medical-student-daughter-killed-pistol-Bosnian-war.html
● Judges reject Mladic's appeal against extradition :: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43221398/ns/world_news-europe/
● Ratko Mladic extradition appeal rejected (Serbian judges rules former Bosnian Serb commander will be extradited to The Hague 'as soon as possible') :: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/31/ratko-mladic-extradition-appeal-rejected
Fairuz Azalia :
@ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/01/501364/main20067828.shtml
@ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391085/Ratko-Mladic-fit-stand-trial-war-crimes-rules-court.html
@ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,,BIH,,4ddf7af22,0.html
Jan Pepijn Servaas : In Scheveningen, I hope he's happy to see his "old friends" Vujadin Popovic, Radovan Karadzic, and his former enemy Ante Gotovina.
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