SARAJEVO, Aug 13 (Hina) - The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday failed in an attempt to capture Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb wartime military commander indicted by the UN tribunal for genocide and war
crimes.
SARAJEVO, Aug 13 (Hina) - The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia-
Herzegovina on Wednesday failed in an attempt to capture Ratko
Mladic, Bosnian Serb wartime military commander indicted by the UN
tribunal for genocide and war crimes. #L#
SFOR troops searched the house of Mladic's mother who passed away
last night, the NATO-led force said in a statement.
The operation, conducted in the village of Kasindol near Sarajevo,
did not result in Mladic's arrest, the statement said, adding that
there were no casualties.
Bosnian Serb media reported that the operation was carried out by a
large number of Italian SFOR troops backed by two dozen vehicles and
four helicopters. They searched the family house of Stana Mladic,
who was buried at the local cemetery later in the afternoon.
The Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz daily reported on Wednesday that
Mladic had apparently arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina from Serbia
six days ago. Citing unnamed sources, the daily said that Mladic had
left for Lake Bileca to spend a part of the summer there.
Dnevni Avaz also claimed that Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan
Karadzic was currently vacationing in the company of nine
bodyguards in the villa of his former police chief Tomo Kovac in the
Montenegrin coastal town of Budva.
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