Mladic arrested?
Serbian police have arrested a man suspected to be the wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, an Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
"He has some physical features of Mladic. We are analysing his DNA now," the official said on condition of anonymity. The man was arrested in Serbia on an anonymous tip, he said.
Serbia must arrest Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb General sought by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide and war crime during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, if it wants to join the European Union.
Serbian President Boris Tadic scheduled an urgent news conference after the interior ministry said police had arrested a man suspected to be leading war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic. No reason was given for the news conference, scheduled for 1300 local time (1200 GMT).
RATKO MLADIC - CASE INFORMATION SHEET
Indicted for genocide, complicity in genocide, persecutions, extermination and murder, deportation and inhumane acts, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, murder, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, taking of hostages.
Crimes indicted for (examples):
Genocide, complicity in genocide
• Acting individually or in concert with other participants in a joint criminal enterprise (JCE) Mladić
planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or
execution of the intentional partial destruction of the Bosnian Muslim national, ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such, in Ključ, Kotor Varoš, Prijedor, Sanski Most and Srebrenica.
• The destruction of these groups was effected by: the widespread killing, deportation and forcible
transfer of non-Serbs in furtherance of the 1992 and 1993 “ethnic cleansing” campaigns in the Bosnian
Krajina and in eastern Bosnia; by causing serious bodily or mental harm to Bosnian Muslims, including
torture, physical and psychological abuse, sexual violence and beatings; and by subjecting Bosnian
Muslims to conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, namely through cruel
and inhumane treatment, including torture, inhumane living conditions and forced labour. These
alleged crimes were variously committed in Banja Luka, Bosanska Krupa, Bratunac, Ključ, Kotor Varoš,
Prijedor, Sanski Most, Srebrenica, Vlasenica and Zvornik.
Persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds, extermination, murder, deportation (crimes
against humanity, Articles 5 and 7)
• Committed in the areas of Banja Luka, Bihać-Ripač, Bijeljina, Bosanska Gradiška, Bosanska Krupa,
Bosanski Novi, Bratunac, Brčko, Doboj, Foča, Gacko, Kalinovik, Ključ, Kotor Varoš, Nevesinje, Novi
Grad, Prijedor, Rogatica, Sanski Most, Srebrenica, Teslić, Vlasenica, Vogošća and Zvornik .
Murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, taking of
hostages (violation of the laws or customs of war, Articles 3 and 7)
• Mladić, acting individually or in concert with other JCE members, planned, ordered, committed or
otherwise aided and abetted a protracted military campaign in which Bosnian Serb forces under his
control, in particular the Sarajevo Romanija Corps, used artillery and mortar shelling and sniping to
target civilian areas of Sarajevo, killing and wounding civilians.