May 27, 2011
WATCH: footage taken by RFE/RL's Balkan Service at the cottage in the Serbian village of Lazarevo, where Ratko Mladic was arrested on May 26. LAZAREVO, Serbia -- On approaching the tiny Serbian village where General Ratko Mladic was finally apprehended, someone has stuck a handwritten notice with the words "Ratko Hero" over the road sign for "Lazarevo."
Inside the town, we saw fresh graffiti on some of the buildings.
"Karadzic, Mladic, Serbian Heroes," someone had scrawled.
No need to use first names. Everyone knows this is a reference to Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' wartime political leader, and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs' military commander who is being readied for extradition to face an international court over alleged war crimes.
But if the signs we saw suggested that this was nationalist territory, the feeling became a conviction when we saw the crowd around the entrance to the house where Mladic was arrested early on May 26.
It was not a friendly or neutral-looking crowd. It was an angry and besieged platoon intent on keeping the media from defiling Mladic's last place of refuge.....more....
read more: radio free europe
http://www.rferl.org/content/serb_village_where_mladic_arrested_says_hesa_here/24207428.html
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