"Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader, was arrested on the territory of the Serbia", announced Thursday the midday Serb President, Boric Tadic, confirming information broadcast earlier in the day by a Serb radio-television B92.
Immediately after the announcement of his capture, the head of European diplomacy Catherine Ashton has requested that he be "transferred without delay" before the international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. For NATO, the arrest provides a possibility "for justice to be done", 16 years after his indictment for genocide and war crimes. "After sixteen years of waiting, for us, the families of victims, it is a relief," said AFP Hajra Catic, President of the association "Women of Srebrenica". "For us, it is really very important", added Ms. Catic phone, whose husband and son were killed in the massacre of Srebrenica.
Extradition of M.Mladic to the Hague, where head office to the international criminal court (ICC) may require up to a week, we learned with the Serbian Prosecutor for war crimes. The Serbian leader explained that M.Mladic appeared before an investigating judge to read his indictment. Later in the day, he was transferred in the building of the Special Court for war crimes in Belgrade.
The international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) claimed the arrest of Ratko Mladic for years for his role during the intercommunal war in Bosnia (1992-1995). Nicknamed the "butcher of the Balkans", he is charged with genocide for his role in the massacre of Srebrenica (Bosnia), where some 8,000 Muslim men and boys Bosnian died and in the siege of Sarajevo which he had conducted operations in the company of the leading policy of Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic. During this siege by the Yugoslav army to Serbian majority, began in April 1992 and lasted 44 months, 11.700 people lost their lives.
The international criminal court prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serge Brammertz, a déclaréque the Serbia by stopping the former military Chief of the Serbs, had "fulfilled one of its international obligations" (see box). "This is great news." "It is a very courageous decision of the Serbian President and it is a step towards the integration, a day next, in the Serbia in the European Union", said the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of the lunch opening of the G8 Summit in Deauville. The United States say they are "delighted" with the arrest Thursday of Mladic and awaiting his transfer to the ICTY, said a senior American official, on the sidelines of the G8 Summit. For its part, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, described the announcement of "historic day for international justice."
The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a little less than three years after that of Karadzic, who was the political leader of Serbs in Bosnia, in July 2008 in Belgrade after 13 years on the run. His trial opened in October 2009. He is imprisoned in the prison quarters of the ICTY in Scheveningen, a neighbourhood of the Hague, where should the join Ratko Mladic
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