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02 Nov 2010 / 10:11
Serbian police have searched three locations where people close to war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic are believed to be situated, Balkan Insight has learned from the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office.
Bojana BarlovacBelgrade
The Prosecutor's office would not disclose any details of the search, though local news agencies have reported that officers are checking two sites in Belgrade and one in Arandjelovac.
Balkan Insight's correspondent, who was in Belgrade's Kosutnjak park where police searched the Bajka restaurant this morning, says the search of the location is over and no police remain at the restaurant.
Serbian news agency Tanjug has reported that policemen blocked the entrance to the ethnic village in Arandjelovac, where another search is believed to have been carried out this morning. The village includes a restaurant and several buildings with apartments.
The owner of both the Bajka restaurant and the ethnic village is Goran Radivojevic, broadcaster B92 reports.
This search comes several days after the Serbian government increased by tenfold a reward for information leading to the arrest of Mladic, the most wanted war crimes fugitive in the Balkans.
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague for genocide and other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The Prosecutor's office would not disclose any details of the search, though local news agencies have reported that officers are checking two sites in Belgrade and one in Arandjelovac.
Balkan Insight's correspondent, who was in Belgrade's Kosutnjak park where police searched the Bajka restaurant this morning, says the search of the location is over and no police remain at the restaurant.
Serbian news agency Tanjug has reported that policemen blocked the entrance to the ethnic village in Arandjelovac, where another search is believed to have been carried out this morning. The village includes a restaurant and several buildings with apartments.
The owner of both the Bajka restaurant and the ethnic village is Goran Radivojevic, broadcaster B92 reports.
This search comes several days after the Serbian government increased by tenfold a reward for information leading to the arrest of Mladic, the most wanted war crimes fugitive in the Balkans.
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague for genocide and other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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02 Nov 2010 / 14:45
Tuesday's search for the associates of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is simply another show, Serbian military analysts say.
Bojana BarlovacBelgrade
"This [search for Mladic] looks like a children's game," Zoran Dragisic, a military analyst and a lecturer at Belgrade University's Faculty of Security Studies, told Balkan Insight.
"I won't believe that any search is serious until they arrest him," he added.
Security analyst Ljubodrag Stojadinovic assumes that Tuesday's operation was launched on the basis of relevant information, but noted that similar actions have been seen many times in the past without clear results.
"Based on previous experience, I suspect that this is yet another spectacle," Stojadinovic told Balkan Insight.
The search, which was carried out on Tuesday morning in three locations in Serbia, comes several days after the Serbian government increased by tenfold a reward for information leading to the arrest of Mladic.
The former Bosnian Serb military leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague for genocide and other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The former Bosnian Serb military leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague for genocide and other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The search also comes two weeks ahead of the scheduled visit of the chief war crimes prosecutor at the Tribunal, Serge Brammertz, to Belgrade.
Brammertz is coming to the Serbian capital as part of preparations for his regular biannual report on the country's cooperation with the court, which he is supposed to submit to the UN Security Council in early December in New York.
In September, the chief prosecutor announced that Serbia's investigations into the whereabouts of war crimes suspects Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic were insufficient and that Belgrade must do more to ensure the two are arrested.
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