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And with Mladic now in custody, Hala Gorani looks back at some of the reaction to what could be the end of this dark chapter in history.

Mladic also accused judges of trying to impose a lawyer on him, a charge judges denied.

There seemed no obstacle to arresting Mr Mladic, but by that time the authorities appeared to have lost track of him.

Before he placed on top of the bar with him and his comrades-in-arms - Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic - the portrait.

Chants rang out on Friday morning from youths, not angry about Mr Mladic's arrest, but happy to be finishing school.

But by the time the police arrived, obstructed by Mladic loyalists, the general was gone.

The wife of the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, who's wanted on genocide charges, has said he's dead.

He watched as his mother, father and brother were handed over to forces led by General Ratko Mladic.

Mladic do not want to help him guard action. "I do not want (guards) holding my arm like I was blind, " he said, "I can walk. "

Mladic now faces extradition to the Netherlands and will eventually be tried by an international criminal tribunal.

Nenad Vukicevic, who runs a Serbian nationalist website, believes that General Mladic would not get a fair trial.

The most important is Ratko Mladic, who led Bosnian Serb forces during the war and is believed to be hiding somewhere in Serbia.

Ratko Mladic is still at large almost 16 years after his indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

They wanted to stop worshiping idols from the past; like Mladic's victims, their lives had been shattered by the wars, too.

Its leader, Tomislav Nikolic, reacted like a frightened rabbit to the Mladic arrest, saying only he was "surprised" .

This week, Serbia arrested one of Europe's most wanted men. Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic spent sixteen years in hiding.

To that end, they secured the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general wanted by the UN's Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.

After a brief recess, judges reconvened without Mladic present and entered not guilty pleas to all the charges on his behalf.

The Serbian president said there will be an investigation into how Mr. Mladic avoided arrest for so long.

As soon as Ratko Mladic entered, he tipped his hat and gave a thumbs up to the public gallery.

Judges denied his request. They asked him to inform Mladic that they pleaded not guilty for him.

Serb nationalists have demonstrated in Belgrade in protest at the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.

The new government, led by Zoran Djindjic, made a decision: it was too dangerous to tackle Mr Mladic and his protectors.

Mladic's 23-year-old daughter commits suicide, reportedly plunging him into a deep depression.

It remains to be seen how the arrest of Mr Mladic will play in Bosnia and Serbia.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced charges against Mr. Mladic in nineteen ninety-five.

The Associated Press reported that Mladic still show the appearance of "Pride. "

Judge Orie had the curtains drawn while Mladic was taken out of court.

Scene photos show the people around Mladic returned to the line of a military salute.

Until a few years ago, Mladic openly dined at fancy Belgrade restaurants and attended soccer matches.

Mr Mladic was arrested in the village of Lazarevo, near the north-east town of Zrenjanin, not far from Romania.

The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a very important step towards full integration of the entire region in our Euro-Atlantic community.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is the latest to appear before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

The incredible stories of Mladic's escapes fueled a number of conspiracy theories (a Balkan specialty).

The Bosnian war was brutal and cruel, and Mr Mladic was the most brutal and cruel of all its masterminds.

People are tired of an old story that should have ended years ago. As Mr Dacic says hopefully, "Mladic is already in the past. "

And people understand that Mladic is absolutely central to that process.

Mr. Mladic is also accused of ordering or carrying out war crimes during the 3 years in which Sarajevo was surrounded and attacked.

Shelling the city relentlessly and starving its citizens, Mladic lays siege to Sarajevo.

Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, is arrested in a northern Serbian village after 16 years on the run.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced charges against Mr. Mladic in 1995.

He spoke to reporters in front of the Special Court in Belgrade, where Mr. Mladic is imprisoned with guards and doctors watching over him.

Survivors are also angry that Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, whose forces carried out the massacre, remains at large.

In Belgrade, kiosks are piled high with papers crammed with details about Mr Mladic's arrest, but they are selling no faster than normal.

After Mladic marched in, Muslims fled to Dutchbat's compound, thinking the Dutch would save them.

His son, Darko Mladic, says his father is not in good health.

Leaving Belgrade, I drove by Mladic's old house, a modest white villa in the Banovo Brdo neighborhood.

President Obama said that he hoped the families of General Mladic's victims would find some solace in the arrest.

Kaye says of all the charges leveled against Mladic, the most difficult one to prove is genocide.

Mr Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb commander, was indicted by the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal in 1995.

Seated, Ratko Mladic took off his hat, revealing a nearly bald head.

Some in the crowd yelled "Bravo, Boris! " others asked "Where is Mladic? "

But elsewhere in Serbia, many I talked to on my visit spoke with hope of Mladic's capture.

Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic spent sixteen years in hiding.

Instead of shooting the piano player, Mladic's soldiers shot about 8, 000 Muslim men whom the Dutch were meant to be protecting.

Extraditing Mr Mladic is easier for Serbia than giving up on Kosovo, whose independence is recognised by only 22 of the EU's 27 members.

"On behalf of the Republic of Serbia we announce that Ratko Mladic has been arrested, " Boris Tadic told reporters.

The arrest of General Mladic has been widely acclaimed overseas.

But Ratko Mladic also has many supporters in Serbia.

Meanwhile, the Serbian President Boris Tadic has announced that Ratko Mladic will be extradited despite his family's appeal.

On Monday, Mladic's trial finally gets going in The Hague.

But this is also a hugely important moment for Serbia's hopes of joining the European Union, which were dependent on Mladic's capture.

According to Mr Fule, Mr Mladic's arrest is "the spark" needed to revive the process, both for Serbia and the EU.

General Ratko Mladic faces 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes stemming from the 1992-to-1995 Bosnia civil war.

Mladic's forces slaughter 8, 000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

Mladic found the country's eternal weak spot.

Ratko Mladic's wife Bosiljka is on trial herself for illegal possession of weapons.

Ratko Mladic will be extradited within 24 hours.

"Have a safe journey, " says Mladic.

Arrest of Mladic Brings Serbia a Step Closer to EU

Snezana Malovic says the process of extraditing Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal "has started. " copyright englishtang