UN tribunal seeks war crimes suspect Mladic's medical file
UN war crimes prosecutors have demanded Belgrade hand over the medical file of Serb fugitive, Gen. Ratko Mladic.
Rasim Ljajic, the official in charge of relations with the court in The Hague, Netherlands, said that “there is no doubt” that Mladic’s medical record will be given to the prosecutors.
Mladic was charged in 1995 with genocide for allegedly orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica and for other atrocities committed by Serb troops during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
The fugitive general remains at large despite immense international pressure on Belgrade for his arrest, including the threat of renewed isolation of the Balkan country.
The government there has maintained that it has been unable to locate Mladic. But the UN prosecutors insist he is hiding in Serbia under protection from the military.
The prosecutors recently have demanded from Belgrade Mladic’s military file. The medical record is a separate document, Ljajic explained, saying the authorities will need to gather it from the Belgrade military hospital and other clinics where Mladic might have been treated.
Serbian media have reported that Mladic was seriously ill, but this has not been confirmed by any of the Belgrade doctors.
Serbia-Montenegro’s Defence Minister Zoran Stankovic is the former head of the Belgrade military hospital and is known to have had close ties to Mladic.
