Serbian War Crimes Suspect Ratko Mladic caught

[Johan]

PARIS — Serbian President Boris Tadic announced at a news conference in Belgrade on Thursday that Ratko Mladic, the fugitive accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, had been captured but refused to give details.

Mr. Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb general, was one of the world’s most wanted criminals, evading capture for more than 15 years despite an increasing international effort to hunt him down. Serbian news reports said that he was living under the name of Milorad Komadic and was captured after a tip that he had identification documents for Mladic and appeared physically similar.

Mr. Mladic was blamed for the worst ethnically motivated mass murder on the Continent since World War II that resulted in the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

“Extradition is happening,” Mr. Tadic said. “This is the end of the search for Mladic. It’s not the end of the search for all those who helped Mladic and others to hide and whether people from the government were involved.” He stressed that “this is happening on the day Catherine Ashton is coming to Serbia,” a reference to European Union policy chief.

In response to a question, he said, “ I do not expect that Serbia because of this arrest will be destabilized. Whoever tries to make any troubles will end up in court.” He said that the last remaining Serbian fugitive, Goran Hadzic, “will be arrested. I promise it is going to happen.”

Mr. Mladic had become the main obstacle to Serbia’s candidacy to join the European Union. He had been in hiding since 1995, widely believed to be protected by allies in the Serbian military and intelligence.

The arrest comes at a crucial moment, just days before the release of a report by the prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague which was expected to say that Serbia was not cooperating and had ignored his latest outline of how to catch the so-called fugitive. The report would have effectively blocked Serbia’s chances to become an official candidate for the European Union. This decision is due to be made in Brussels in November. The Netherlands, which hosts the court and whose peacekeepers were overrun by Mladic’s troops at Srebrenica, has already said it will veto Serbia’s candidacy without the arrest of Mr. Mladic, thereby puncturing the required consensus.

Sometimes hiding in plain sight at soccer matches and sometimes deep in the fabric of this secretive city, Mr. Mladic appeared to have spent recent years hidden by no more than a handful of loyalists, investigators and some of his past associates have said.

The former leader of the armed forces of the Bosnian Serbs during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s was thought to be last living in New Belgrade, a sprawling extension of the Serbian capital across the Sava River. His diminished circumstances appeared to make him ripe for capture.

Over the years, as European pressure for an arrest intensified and then retreated, he received vital, little known, assistance from Serbian military forces and several of the country’s past governments as recently as 2008 when . The arrest of Mr. Mladic had been a prerequisite for Serbia’s bid to join the European Union, but last year the union voted to move ahead with membership talks with Serbia anyway. His captured remained a vital condition for entry into the union with Serbia facing a critical new evaluation of its efforts to hunt him down by Serge Brammertz, the chief prosecutor of the Hague war crimes court.

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader and Mr. Mladic’s boss, is currently being tried on charges of genocide for his role in the Balkan bloodshed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/world/europe/27ratko-mladic.html

One more bastard will have to face trial for his crimes :clap:

 

[TheOrangeCat]

They should have executed the evil piece of shit on the spot, Osama style.

I wonder what porn they found in his hidey-hole??

 

[Ulysses31]

Was gonna post this in the morning but hadn't been confirmed at the time. Great news that this war criminal will face trial and bring some justice to the families of all those many killed, a shocking incident of genocide in 1990s Europe. Credit to the Serbs for bringing him in and coming a long way to catch up with the rest of Europe. This guy should not be seen as a patriot or a war hero by anyone, there is no military honour in rounding up 8000 unarmed men and boys because they were muslim and executing them in cold blood, this is the type of thing that we expected from the Nazis. Anyone upset by this is no different any Germans worshipping SS men who sent millions to death in the concentration camps or Muslims mourning the death of Bin Laden, killing unarmed civilians is the most deplorable of crimes in my book. Hopefully they don't imprison him here, mind you he wouldn't last too long!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rrested-Serbian-police-anonymous-tip-off.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-warlord-throat-slashed-Muslim-inmates.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...1-200-Muslims-Srebrenica-arrested-Israel.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-bury-dead-12-years-Srebrenica-massacre.html


Watch this for an overview of the massacre (9 parts)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj25iI7Tdc0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-reiBVLpL8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_vSqzUxWQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKuaV1-ILm4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLd1rQHfSw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oyLLvN0D8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWUqYE6jS4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqRDzm90y4&feature=fvwrel

 

[Trident1]

Mladic was a product of WWII. Both his parents were executed by the Croat Ustashe. When he took Srebrenica he sealed his fate. It didn't matter that the Muslim army used the town as a base of operations to raid local Serb villages with impunity. His systematic execution of old men and boys was appalling. His conduct was the same as the Croat Ustashe who murdered his parents.
As an American of Serb heritage, I'm relieved that this sad chapter has been closed and that he was brought to justice.

 

[Jagger69]

This aptly-named criminal being brought to justice is a good thing. Sad chapter indeed....

 

[sleep]

Was gonna post this in the morning but hadn't been confirmed at the time. Great news that this war criminal will face trial and bring some justice to the families of all those many killed, a shocking incident of genocide in 1990s Europe. Credit to the Serbs for bringing him in and coming a long way to catch up with the rest of Europe. This guy should not be seen as a patriot or a war hero by anyone, there is no military honour in rounding up 8000 unarmed men and boys because they were muslim and executing them in cold blood, this is the type of thing that we expected from the Nazis. Anyone upset by this is no different any Germans worshipping SS men who sent millions to death in the concentration camps or Muslims mourning the death of Bin Laden, killing unarmed civilians is the most deplorable of crimes in my book. Hopefully they don't imprison him here, mind you he wouldn't last too long!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rrested-Serbian-police-anonymous-tip-off.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-warlord-throat-slashed-Muslim-inmates.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...1-200-Muslims-Srebrenica-arrested-Israel.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-bury-dead-12-years-Srebrenica-massacre.html


Watch this for an overview of the massacre (9 parts)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj25iI7Tdc0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-reiBVLpL8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_vSqzUxWQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKuaV1-ILm4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLd1rQHfSw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oyLLvN0D8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWUqYE6jS4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqRDzm90y4&feature=fvwrel

I have this documentary burned to DVD. It kills me every time I watch it. I'm not sure which bothers me more, what Mladic and his troops did at Srebrinica or how poorly the U.N. acted. Those poor Dutch troops that got thrown under that bus!



If you haven't watched it, see the Movie "Shot Through The Heart"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171741/

 

[wolverine81]

We just need to kill this piece of shit.

 

[Will E Worm]

This is a joke.

You know how many war criminals never get anything?

There are many still alive that are getting away with murder.

He is just being singled out to make it look like they care.

 

[Trident1]

He's so frail at this point that he will never do any time.

 

[georges]

put a bullet in his skull and burn his body.

 

[Ulysses31]

Heard his daughter shot herself in the head with her fathers gun in 1994 at the age of 23 and it was speculated that she had been in Russia and had read in the newspapers there (media back in Serbia was one sided) about her fathers actions in Bosnia and went home to kill herself because of the guilt, and this was BEFORE the 8000 were butchered by him in Srebrenica. Apparently he regularly visited her grave so possibly could have been aprehended much earlier. Shame his daughter had more of a conscience than he did, if that is the reason why she killed herself.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...key-to-catching-ratko-mladic-115875-20673711/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article735682.ece


Court rules Butcher of Bosnia Ratko Mladic is fit to stand trial for war crimes

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ial-war-crimes-rules-court.html#ixzz1NZzx2niC

 

[Rey C.]

From another site:

Have you noticed the name he used - Milorad Komadic (*)? That's an anagram of "I'm Ratko Mladic". And "rat" is Serbian for war - Nomen est omen. The Dutch radio presenter who told this added in haste: "This reads like a Dan Brown novel."

(*) The BBC page spells it as Komodic, but other websites I've seen spell Komadic.

Much like Osama, this piece of shit was able to hide in plain sight... among "his people".

Serbia had been refused entry into the European Union, in part because it was thought that it continued to harbor Ratko Mladic. Now that is seems pretty apparent that was the case, I hope Serbia never gets entry into to the EU!

 

[LukeEl]

I thought Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman captured this guy?

 

[Hot Mega]

As an American of Serb heritage, I'm relieved that this sad chapter has been closed and that he was brought to justice.

Good to know. From some of your posts...I was almost expecting to read from the story they found the Rat hiding in Tri's den.

 

[Ulysses31]

A war criminal to the world but in Serbia, thousands come out to protest at treatment of Butcher of Bosnia


# 16 injured and 100 arrested after violence on streets of Belgrade

# Serbian general to go back to court today for extradition hearing

# Family claim he has had two strokes and is not fit for trial

# Mladic was looked after by nuns while he was on the run

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-come-thousands-Serbia.html#ixzz1NrrBU3QP

 

[Ulysses31]

Mercy for a monster: Mladic visits grave of daughter who killed herself with his favourite pistol

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-killed-pistol-Bosnian-war.html#ixzz1NxpYgnZX

 

[Will E Worm]

Ratko Mladic's son has claimed his father "had nothing to do with" the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, ahead of the indicted Serbian war criminal's appeal against extradition in Belgrade on Monday.

Ratko Mladic arrest: son claims former general did not order Srebrenica massacre

If so he only killed Muslims. :1orglaugh:tongue:

What about the genocide happening in South Africa?

What about Nelson Mandela?
He wants to kill all whites in Africa.

Kill the Boers = Kill the farmers (White farmers in Africa)

Nelson Mandela singing about killing whites

 

[Trident1]

Mercy for a monster: Mladic visits grave of daughter who killed herself with his favourite pistol

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-killed-pistol-Bosnian-war.html#ixzz1NxpYgnZX

My sympathies. The whole of Yugoslavia went mad in the 1990s. WWII never truly ended there, it merely hibernated until the end of the Cold War.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I fucked him.

 

[Ulysses31]

'I was the boy being patted on the head by Mladic as his men put my father in a mass grave at Srebrenica'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ther-Srebrenica-mass-grave.html#ixzz1O34z1pVS