Bosnia TV airs fugitive Serb Mladic video

Published: June 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 11 (UPI) -- A Bosnian television station aired a video showing former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, sought on war crimes charges, in Bosnia.

Bosnian Federation Television Wednesday evening aired the video clips, taken by an amateur, showing Mladic, 66, in company of his close relatives and friends in the past 10 years.

The video shows Mladic, sought by the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on genocide charges, conducting what appears to be normal life in Belgrade.

The video included a clip from 1994 when Mladic was filmed attending the funeral of his daughter Ana, a 23-year-old medical student who committed suicide. He also is seen taking part in the wedding party of his son Darko and celebrating his grandson's birthday.

The video suggested Mladic has been moving freely in Belgrade since the tribunal's indictment was issued in 1995. A former bodyguard recently said Mladic was living freely in Belgrade under military protection until 2002. It was not clear when the latest clips were filmed.

The Hague tribunal accused Mladic of crimes against humanity in the ethnic war in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-95.

Mladic is accused of the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995 and the siege of Sarajevo, which lasted for nearly four years. More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo under constant Bosnian Serb shelling and sniper attacks.

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