Mladic, Mastermind of Srebrenica, Arrested

The top general of Serbia's army during the Bosnian war will be shipped to The Hague to face charges of genocide.

Ratko Mladic, one of the most wanted fugitives of the Bosnia war who is believed to have orchestrated the massacre at Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo, has been arrested in Serbia. The former Bosnian Serb army general had been hiding for a decade, and has long been sought by UN authorities for prosecution. The war crimes tribunal in The Hague first issued warrants for Mladic's arrest in 1995. Mladic was arrested for the slaughter of some 7,500 Bosnian men and boys at Srebrenica, the worse massacre in Europe since the Second World War. Another 10,000 died between 1992 and 1996 in the siege of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. Serbian President Boris Tadic hailed the arrest of Mladic, who had been living under an assumed name since 2001, as the end of a sordid chapter in Balkan history.