New hope for Mladic war crimes trial
Gen Ratko Mladic’s days as a war crimes fugitive may be numbered, according to a senior US State Department official who announced the US was lifting its freeze on a $10m (€8.2m) aid package to Serbia-Montenegro.
“It’s our very strong hope that Serbia will now take the final steps to send Gen Mladic to The Hague to have him put on trial for the crimes he directed in the murder of 8,000 men and boys of Srebrenica,” US Under-secretary of State Nicholas Burns said yesterday after meeting Serbian officials in Belgrade.
