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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia may send Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within four days, a justice official said on Monday, despite riots by nationalists angry at the Bosnian Serb general's capture after 16 years on...
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Combination photo shows Bosnian Serb army commander General Radko Mladic in Pale dated May 7, 1993 and in Belgrade after he was arrested on May 26, 2011.
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Mon May 30, 2011 11:06am EDT
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia may send Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within four days, a justice official said on Monday, despite riots by nationalists angry at the Bosnian Serb general's capture after 16 years on the run.
Security agents tracked the fugitive general to a messy Serbian farmhouse belonging to his cousin on Thursday. In so doing they removed a big obstacle to Serbia' bid to join the European Union.
Mladic's lawyers argue the 69-year-old, found alone surrounded by medications, is mentally unstable and thus too sick to be extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal.
The Hague court indicted Mladic for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in 1995.
For seven years after that, Mladic lived openly at his home in Belgrade and often received visitors, Aleksandar Mihailovic, a friend who lived down the street, said on Monday.
"He lived normally until 2002," said Mihailovic, who built Mladic's house, told Reuters. "He loved songs, rakia, eating -- he was a very normal person."
A Belgrade court ruled on Friday that Mladic was fit enough to face trial and served extradition papers. His lawyer Milos Saljic said he plans to appeal that decision "to prolong the extradition as long as possible."
"I will mail it late this afternoon," he told reporters. "I expect the court to review the appeal tomorrow, at the earliest."
The appeal court must respond and forward the final decision to the Justice Ministry which will then rule on the extradition straight away, a process that would take up to four days, said Slobodan Homen, a state secretary.
Vladimir Vukcevic, Serbia's chief war crimes prosecutor said: "I have seen Mladic and I believe he is fit for trial ... We will now focus on uncovering the entire network of his helpers."
Saljic disagreed Mladic was fit for trial, saying he "still speaks incoherently and has mentioned that he would go by foot to visit his mother's grave."
Many Serbs admire Mladic as a dedicated military man who did not seek to enrich himself during the bitter civil war.
Mladic's friend Mihailovic said the siege of Sarajevo, in which 10,000 died, was a legitimate military operation and as commander responsible for the entire war, Mladic could not have known about the details of the Srebrenica massacre.
He agreed to speak out after receiving the blessing of the Mladic family and some of his arguments could foreshadow the general's defense strategy. Srebrenica survivors say they saw Mladic moments before the executions.
Serbian authorities said they detained 180 people who had attacked police and injured 32 officers in Belgrade during a pro-Mladic rally on Sunday organised by the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader is on trial in The Hague.
Many of those at the rally were young people, some not even born during the Bosnian war.
Mladic's son and grandchildren, who live in Belgrade, visited him in prison on Monday. At the Sunday rally, Darko Mladic said his father was a defender of his people.
"Ratko Mladic is not a criminal, he did not order the killings. He defended his people in an honorable, fair and professional manner," he told the crowd.
(Additional reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic and Snezana Kusovac; editing by Jon Hemming and Philippa Fletcher)
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ARJTurgot2 wrote:
Ratko Mladic is a thug and a criminal. If Serbia wants to convince people it deserves to be part of the human race, let alone Europe, it needs to deal with his enablers, who are also thugs.
May 30, 2011 9:19am EDT -- Report as abuse
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