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An undated file photo shows top war crimes fugitives Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, right, and political leader Radovan Karadzic. (AP/Srdjan Ilic)
Fox News wrote:BELGRADE, Serbia – After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladić was hauled before a judge Thursday -- the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
On Thursday evening, Mladić walked haltingly into a closed-door extradition hearing in Belgrade, where he asserted through his attorney that he will not answer to the authority of the U.N. tribunal. The former military commander wore a navy blue jacket and a baseball hat -- his gray hair sticking out of the sides -- and carried what appeared to be a towel in his left hand. He could be heard on state TV saying "good day" to someone in the courtroom, and a guard told him, "Let's go, general."
Mladić, 69, was one of the world's most-wanted fugitives. He was the top commander of the Bosnian Serb army during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, which killed more than 100,000 people and drove another 1.8 million from their homes. Thousands of Muslims and Croats were killed, tortured or driven out in a campaign to purge the region of non-Serbs.
Authorities recorded the last trace of Mladić living in Belgrade in January 2006, said Rasim Ljajic, a member of a government team hunting the ex-general. And then," Ljajic said, "he vanished."
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