Ben Rhodes, a deputy White House national security adviser, told reporters the United States looks forward to Mladic's quick transfer to the U.N. tribunal at The Hague. He said the arrest showed that such criminals would be brought to justice.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) charges Mladic, who was on the run for 16 years, with genocide, complicity in genocide, persecutions, extermination and murder, deportation and inhumane acts, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, murder, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, taking of hostages.
He was captured in the village of Lazarevo near Zrenjanin in the province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia.