Does anybody know how to reach these AFP French SOB's/DOB's (Son/Daughter of a Bachelor)'s ? Any E-mail, Tel/Fax numbers? Tika Jankovic, California > -----Original Message----- > From: Miroslav Antic [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:29 PM > To: NSP; NATO; Sorabia@Yahoogroups. Com; News; BALKAN; SNN; 'YAHOO' > Subject: [sorabia] Ratko Mladic: Western villian, Serbian hero > > > Thursday, July 5 7:25 PM SGT > > Ratko Mladic: Western villian, Serbian hero > > BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, July 5 (AFP) - > > Still on the run despite being wanted for crimes against humanity, Ratko > Mladic remains a hero to the Serbian people but will always be > associated in Western eyes with the massacre of thousands of civilians > after the fall of Srebrenica. > > Mladic, 58, was not only the architect of what has been considered the > worst incident of genocide in Europe since the end of World War II, a > crime for which he was indicted back in 1995, but was also behind the > three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo which claimed another 10,000 > lives. > > And it was all done in the name of "Greater Serbia", a fact which made > him a hero to his people and a one-time favourite of former Yugoslav > president Slobodan Milosevic. > > Mladic, the subject of an international arrest warrant since 1996, now > finally looks likely to follow his mentor into the dock at the UN war > crimes tribunal in the Hague, as Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Mladen > Ivanic is reportedly ready to hand him over. > > But Ivanic claims not to know where Mladic is, although he was last > sighted in Belgrade in October last year around the time of Milosevic's > fall. > > Mladic is generally considered to have returned to the Republika Srpska > (RS) and gone into hiding again, possibly under the protection of the > army he once commanded. > > Born on March 12, 1943, in Bozinovici in eastern Bosnia, Mladic was two > years old when his father was killed by Croatia's World War II fascist > authorities, the Ustashe. > > But the general accuses the Muslims of worse horrors. They "impale > Serbs, burn them alive, crucify them and put out their eyes," he is > quoted as saying -- using the bloodthirsty language that so > characterised the Bosnian war. > > In June 1991, when war broke out in Croatia, Mladic, then a colonel in > the Yugoslav army based in Pristina, was given the job of organising the > separatist Serb militias at Knin in Croatia. > > The following May, Mladic, by now a general, was made commander of the > Bosnian Serb forces and fought to link Serb-held lands in eastern and > western Bosnia. > > Mladic stands indicted as a war crimes suspect after his troops overran > the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia on July 11, > 1995. > > According to international organisations, an estimated 8,000 people were > killed in subsequent massacres at Srebrenica. > > For many international observers, the stocky, ebullient Mladic was the > epitome of Serb defiance and it took the combined might of NATO > warplanes and cruise missiles to blow apart his military advantage when > he refused to bow to Western demands to withdraw his heavy weapons from > around Sarajevo in September 1995. > > Never just a simple soldier, Mladic is credited with considerable > political muscle within the Bosnian Serb leadership and was never shy of > using it, but he became too much of a liablity even for the former RS > president, Biljana Plavsic, who sacked him in 1997. > > Mladic has even been credited with influencing the Bosnian Serb > parliament to reject a peace plan proposed by international mediators > Lord David Owen and Cyrus Vance in 1993. > > Chillingly, he is alleged to have said: "Borders are always drawn in > blood and states marked out with graves." > > Mladic and his generals have never accepted subordination to the > political leadership and in August 1995, the entire general command > united against then-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who had tried to wrest > control of the army from Mladic. > > Karadzic sacked Mladic but was forced to reinstate him. In October of > the same year, Karadzic fired four generals but the move was never > implemented. > > Mladic became a reclusive figure in post-war Bosnia, and for a long time > holed up in his main command bunker at Han Pijesak, calmly defying NATO > attempts to arrest him, as he regularly threatened to bathe in blood any > soldiers who attempted to detain him. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =============== > Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > page at http://www.egroups.com/group/sorabia > for more informations about current situation in Serbia > http://sorabia.home.dhs.org > Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) > http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=sorabiaradio > > > Your use of Yahoo! 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