{"id":174429,"date":"2011-05-27T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2011\/05\/27\/mladic-due-at-extradition-hearing-221240-eng\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:09:40","slug":"mladic-due-at-extradition-hearing-221240-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/mladic-due-at-extradition-hearing-221240-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Mladic due at extradition hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is due back in court in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the resumption of an extradition hearing.<\/p>\n

The session against the 69-year-old was halted on Thursday when his lawyer said he was in "poor physical state".<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic, arrested on Thursday after 16 years on the run, faces genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnian war.<\/p>\n

His extradition to the UN war crimes court at The Hague could take a week.<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic was indicted in 1995 for genocide over the killings about 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys that July at Srebrenica – the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II – and other crimes.<\/p>\n

‘Delaying tactics’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BBC’s Mark Lowen, outside the court in Belgrade, says Gen Mladic’s wife, Bosiljka – who recently said she thought her husband was dead – turned up to visit him.<\/p>\n

She did not reply when asked how her husband was – probably embarrassed because of what she had asserted before, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

Having lived freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Gen Mladic is believed to have disappeared after the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.<\/p>\n

Following the arrest of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large.<\/p>\n

The arrest was hailed internationally.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Serbian TV showed footage of the former general wearing a baseball cap and walking slowly as he appeared in court in Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The extradition hearing was stopped when Gen Mladic’s lawyer, Milos Saljic, said his client was unable to communicate.<\/p>\n

Mr Saljic argued that Mr Mladic – who looked frail and walked slowly during the initial hearing – was unfit to stand trial.<\/p>\n

But a senior Serbian war crimes prosecutor said he believed the defence was exaggerating the general’s health problems in an attempt to delay extradition.<\/p>\n

Reports in Serbian media suggested that one of Gen Mladic’s arms was paralysed, which was probably the result of a stroke.<\/p>\n

Mr Saljic said: "He is aware that he is under arrest, he knows where he is, and he said he does not recognise The Hague tribunal."<\/p>\n

Court officials believe he will fight the extradition.<\/p>\n

Serbia had been under intense international pressure to arrest Gen Mladic and send him to the UN International Criminal Tribunal to the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.<\/p>\n

After the arrest, the government banned public gatherings in an effort to prevent any pro-Mladic demonstrations.<\/p>\n

But hundreds of ultra-nationalists clashed with police in the northern city of Novi Sad, and there was a smaller demonstration involving several dozen protesters in the centre of Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The government is now keen for a speedy extradition of Gen Mladic, whom Serb nationalists still regard as a hero, the BBC’s Mark Lowen in Belgrade reports.<\/p>\n

President Boris Tadic said Gen Mladic’s arrest had brought Serbia and the region closer to reconciliation, and opened the doors to European Union membership.
\n‘Stake-out’<\/p>\n

Mr Tadic rejected criticism that Serbia had been reluctant to seize Gen Mladic.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for families of Srebrenica victims, Hajra Catic, told AFP news agency: "After 16 years of waiting, for us, the victims’ families, this is a relief."<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic was seized in the province of Vojvodina in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n

He had two guns with him, but put up no resistance, officials said.<\/p>\n

Serbian security sources told AFP news agency that three special units had descended on a house in the village of Lazarevo, about 80km (50 miles) north of Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The single-storey house was owned by a relative of Gen Mladic and had been under surveillance for the past two weeks, one of the sources added.<\/p>\n

Local resident Zora Prodariovic told the BBC: "I’m really surprised. "My mother lives four doors down from here and I’ve never seen him."<\/p>\n

Reports that Gen Mladic had been living under the assumed name Milorad Komodic have been denied by Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic.<\/p>\n

Serbian media say he was not in disguise – unlike Mr Karadzic, who had a long beard and a ponytail when he was captured in Belgrade three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is due back in court in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the resumption of an extradition hearing.<\/p>\n

The session against the 69-year-old was halted on Thursday when his lawyer said he was in "poor physical state".<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic, arrested on Thursday after 16 years on the run, faces genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnian war.<\/p>\n

His extradition to the UN war crimes court at The Hague could take a week.<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic was indicted in 1995 for genocide over the killings about 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys that July at Srebrenica – the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II – and other crimes.<\/p>\n

‘Delaying tactics’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BBC’s Mark Lowen, outside the court in Belgrade, says Gen Mladic’s wife, Bosiljka – who recently said she thought her husband was dead – turned up to visit him.<\/p>\n

She did not reply when asked how her husband was – probably embarrassed because of what she had asserted before, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

Having lived freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Gen Mladic is believed to have disappeared after the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.<\/p>\n

Following the arrest of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large.<\/p>\n

The arrest was hailed internationally.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Serbian TV showed footage of the former general wearing a baseball cap and walking slowly as he appeared in court in Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The extradition hearing was stopped when Gen Mladic’s lawyer, Milos Saljic, said his client was unable to communicate.<\/p>\n

Mr Saljic argued that Mr Mladic – who looked frail and walked slowly during the initial hearing – was unfit to stand trial.<\/p>\n

But a senior Serbian war crimes prosecutor said he believed the defence was exaggerating the general’s health problems in an attempt to delay extradition.<\/p>\n

Reports in Serbian media suggested that one of Gen Mladic’s arms was paralysed, which was probably the result of a stroke.<\/p>\n

Mr Saljic said: "He is aware that he is under arrest, he knows where he is, and he said he does not recognise The Hague tribunal."<\/p>\n

Court officials believe he will fight the extradition.<\/p>\n

Serbia had been under intense international pressure to arrest Gen Mladic and send him to the UN International Criminal Tribunal to the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.<\/p>\n

After the arrest, the government banned public gatherings in an effort to prevent any pro-Mladic demonstrations.<\/p>\n

But hundreds of ultra-nationalists clashed with police in the northern city of Novi Sad, and there was a smaller demonstration involving several dozen protesters in the centre of Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The government is now keen for a speedy extradition of Gen Mladic, whom Serb nationalists still regard as a hero, the BBC’s Mark Lowen in Belgrade reports.<\/p>\n

President Boris Tadic said Gen Mladic’s arrest had brought Serbia and the region closer to reconciliation, and opened the doors to European Union membership.
\n‘Stake-out’<\/p>\n

Mr Tadic rejected criticism that Serbia had been reluctant to seize Gen Mladic.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for families of Srebrenica victims, Hajra Catic, told AFP news agency: "After 16 years of waiting, for us, the victims’ families, this is a relief."<\/p>\n

Gen Mladic was seized in the province of Vojvodina in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n

He had two guns with him, but put up no resistance, officials said.<\/p>\n

Serbian security sources told AFP news agency that three special units had descended on a house in the village of Lazarevo, about 80km (50 miles) north of Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The single-storey house was owned by a relative of Gen Mladic and had been under surveillance for the past two weeks, one of the sources added.<\/p>\n

Local resident Zora Prodariovic told the BBC: "I’m really surprised. "My mother lives four doors down from here and I’ve never seen him."<\/p>\n

Reports that Gen Mladic had been living under the assumed name Milorad Komodic have been denied by Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic.<\/p>\n

Serbian media say he was not in disguise – unlike Mr Karadzic, who had a long beard and a ponytail when he was captured in Belgrade three years ago.<\/p>\n

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