Ratko Mladic arrested: Bosnia war crimes suspect held

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Ratko Mladic, wanted by UN prosecutors for war crimes during the Bosnian civil war, has been arrested in Serbia after a decade in hiding.

Serbian President Boris Tadic confirmed the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb army chief at a news conference.

Gen Mladic is accused of a key role in the massacre of at least 7,500 men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

He was the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13561407

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Good - a trial is long past due for this guy.

[dipsydoodle]

1. That's weird

I posted earlier and it disappeared off the LBN right hand menu. :shrug:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4863796

I've rec'd your one anyway. :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I know - I checked that right hand menu before posting this

and thought no-one had posted in LBN about it - and then left it up to the mods to decide if they want to combine them when I did see yours inside the LBN forum. Thanks for the rec. :hi:

[CBHagman]

11. I'm glad I searched the LBN page first.

I was very close to posting the story because a casual glance revealed more on Ed Schultz's mouth (obviously a matter of life-and-death importance to all of us :eyes:) than on a breaking war crimes/human rights issue.

[CanonRay]

3. I can't believe the name Ratko isn't more popular

:evilgrin:

[harun]

4. Great news. Murderous assh*le needs to get what he deserves.

[somone]

5. Another mass murderer that needs taken off the earth

[on point]

6. GREAT! Now if they coould only find George Bush....

[pampango]

7. Nice to have some "world government" (the International Criminal Court) to try guys like this who

have violated global norms of behavior. :)

[erikdane]

8. Wait!

He ordered the killing of far more people than Osama Bin Laden. Why is he getting a trial? Thats not fair. I thought we just shoot people we don't like. I am confused.

[pampango]

9. He's lucky he was captured by Europeans.

:)

[erikdane]

10. Yeah that must be it.

Those pesky Europeans with their rule of law, trials and human rights. Silly people. Must be some Old World thing they have going on. Imagine the circus, the money and resources they have to spend now. Silly people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. 15 counts: genocide, persecution, extermination, murder, terror, hostage taking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13561875

"Shell them till they are on the edge of madness" - an intercepted radio command of his: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13568518