Top war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive
General Ratko Mladic has been arrested, the official Serbian
news agency Tanjug on Tuesday quoted a local television station
in Bosnia’s Serb Republic as saying.

No immediate confirmation of the report was available.

Tanjug said TV BN reported the wartime Bosnian Serb Army
commander had been taken into custody in the Serbian capital
Belgrade and was being transferred via the northeast Bosnian
city of Tuzla to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

An earlier report by Belgrade’s “Studio B” television said
Mladic had been located “in the area of Tuzla,” which lies
close to the mountainous border with Serbia.

Mladic was indicted in 1995 for genocide for the 43-month
siege of Sarajevo which claimed 12,000 lives and for
orchestrating the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at
Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.