Serbian security raid Mladic’s son home
Police raided a Belgrade apartment belonging to Ratko Mladic’s son on Monday after criticism by the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor that Serbian authorities are not doing enough to capture the genocide suspect.
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said Monday in a statement the search of Darko Mladic’s high-rise flat in a Belgrade suburb is aimed at finding “evidence and clues pointing to the location where (Ratko) Mladic is hiding.”
There were no immediate reports on whether the search of a drab, communist-style, neighborhood of the capital, one in a series of such raids in the past several years, produced any results.
Chief U.N. prosecutor Serge Brammertz earlier this month reportedly urged those searching for the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander to intensify their efforts, or his next report to the U.N. Security Council about Serbia’s cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia could be negative.
Brammertz’s regular reports on Serbia’s compliance are crucial for the Balkan country’s efforts to become an European Union member candidate. He is due to arrive on a fact-find mission to Belgrade on Feb. 21.
Serbia’s deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric denied that Monday’s raid was conducted under pressure.
“We are not bluffing,” Vekaric said, adding that Mladic’s arrest remains Serbia’s priority.
Mladic is wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for war crimes committed by his troops during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, including the massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
Mladic has been on the run since he was indicted by the Netherlands-based court in 1995.
The U.N. prosecutors believe he is hiding in Serbia under the protection of hardliners who consider him a hero. Mladic was last seen in Belgrade in 2006.
DUSAN STOJANOVIC
January 31, 201
Associated Press
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Thats right follow the orders from the empire what they should be doing is raiding terrorists in Kosovo,but i wouldn’t expect anything else from those quislings in Belgrade.
What they think to accomplish by harassing general Ratko Mladic’s
family? Who is Bruno Vekaric? He should be pursuing war criminals
for the crimes committed against the Serbian people in Croatia and Kosovo