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Wife of fugitive Ratko Mladic arrested on weapons charges

Wed, Jun 09 2010 17:32 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Wife of fugitive Ratko Mladic arrested on weapons charges

Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, centre, in an August 1994 file picture.

The wife of fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, Bosiljka Mladic, was arrested and taken to court in Belgrade for questioning in connection with alleged illegal possession of firearms, Serbian and international media said on June 9 2010.
 
The firearms, reportedly found in her husband’s locker in the Mladic family home in 2008, were reported to include a hunting rifle, automatic rifle and four pistols.
 
Ratko Mladic is being sought in connection with the 1996 massacre in Srebrenica of about 8000 Muslim men and children and for his role in the siege of Sarajevo.
 
Recently, Mladic asked Serbian authorities to declare Ratko Mladic officially dead, a move opposed by prosecutors.
 
Handing war criminals to justice in the international court in The Hague is a key pre-condition for Serbia’s attempts to accede to the European Union.

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Anonymous tyrhan Fri, Jun 11 2010 13:49 CET
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What brave and powerful government. Harassing old women now. Peggy"

Are you seriously surprised by serbs?
This people have filled up mountains of mass graves full of innocent children females and elderly, all with not a single evidence or law process, just by ethnic serb nationalism.
And now since the criminals shi7 their pants in front of others, they will kill their own :D

Anonymous Okati Thu, Jun 10 2010 12:21 CET
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She deservs it, it takes a snake to know a snake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebF40FFPyac
LOL, Aviation day!just once more shows the great power of lies of Servia and their butcher scum lying idiots.


Genocidal killers like mladic should be searched till they find their bones.

Anonymous Peggy Thu, Jun 10 2010 02:28 CET
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What brave and powerful government. Harassing old women now.
Endless searches before and they never discovered this stash back then?
What next for her? Torture until she reveals his whereabouts?

Seriously, they should be ashamed of themselves. If they have to harass an old woman then they have truly stooped very low.

Anonymous bob Wed, Jun 09 2010 19:37 CET
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where is he?


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