Mladic found on relative’s farm after 16-year hunt

BOSNIAN Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia yesterday after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the state to approach the European mainstream.

The general, accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and a brutal 43-month siege of Sarajevo during Bosnia’s 1992-’95 war, was found in a farmhouse owned by a relative, a police official said.

“Mladic was handcuffed and whisked away,” said the official. Mladic had been co-operative during the arrest, he added.