Noose 'tightening' around war crimes fugitive
The noose is tightening around top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, Serbian media and officials said today.
They predicted that the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander’s extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal was a matter of days away.
The Blic daily newspaper said an envoy of Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica was bringing negotiations “to a close” on Mladic’s surrender.
The general was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on genocide charges related to Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
Mladic was “never closer to a surrender,” claimed another Belgrade newspaper, the Vecernje Novosti.
“It is very important that Serbia-Montenegro solves the question of Mladic by this year’s end,” said the country’s president Svetozar Marovic.
