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"With the Hague due to release a negative report on Serbia's cooperation efforts in June, the timing of the arrest is almost too good to be true" (Photo: Bamshad Houshyani)

They got him!

After almost sixteen years on the run, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladić has been finally apprehended by Serbian security forces. The arrest took place in the quiet northern Serbian village of Lazarevo. Serbian President Boris Tadić has said that the process to extradite General Mladić to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague is under way.

Following the arrest of Radovan Karadzić in 2008, Mladić had become the most prominent Bosnian...

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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.

"With the Hague due to release a negative report on Serbia's cooperation efforts in June, the timing of the arrest is almost too good to be true" (Photo: Bamshad Houshyani)

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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.

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