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Source: AP
Breaking News
March 3, 2007

Serbian president urges arrest of war crimes fugitive Mladic

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's president on Saturday urged the arrest of war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic to comply with a World Court demand. The U.N.'s highest court ruled Monday that Serbia did not carry out genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's war. But it ordered Belgrade to hand over Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime commander and the alleged architect of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that left over 7,000 Bosnian Muslims killed. Mladic and the others who are hiding"are working against the interests of Serbia," President Boris Tadic said, adding that the World Court's ruling makes Mladic's arrest compulsory. The Serbian pro-Western president, however, has little power to arrest Mladic who is believed to be hiding under the protection of hard-liners in the army and police who still wield considerable influence in Serbia.

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