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Mladic Visits Daughter's Grave, Awaits Appeal Decision

   VOA News  May 31, 2011
   Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday,
   May 26, 2011, is seen at an undisclosed location at an unknown time
   after his arrest in Serbia after years in hiding, May 30, 2011

Photo: AP

   Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday,
   May 26, 2011, is seen at an undisclosed location at an unknown time
   after his arrest in Serbia after years in hiding, May 30, 2011

   Serbian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was taken Tuesday to visit his
   daughter's gravesite, as he awaited a decision on his appeal against
   transfer to The Hague for trial on charges of genocide.
   Guards transported Mladic to the Belgrade cemetery containing the grave
   of his daughter Ana, who committed suicide in 1994.
   A three-judge panel is set to decide on his appeal Tuesday. A justice
   official told Reuters news service that the appeal will almost
   certainly be denied and Mladic swiftly sent off to the U.N. war crimes
   tribunal in the Netherlands.
   The tribunal has charged Mladic with the 1995 massacre of some 8,000
   Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica. He also is charged with war crimes
   related to the three-year siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo,
   during the 1992-to-1995 Bosnian war.
   Mladic filed the appeal Monday. His attorney says the 69-year-old
   former commander of the Bosnian Serb army is so ill he will not live to
   see the start of his trial.
   Serbia's deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric, says the appeal
   is a delaying tactic.
   A Belgrade court on Friday ruled that the Bosnian Serb wartime
   commander is healthy enough be extradited to The Hague to stand trial.
   On Sunday, thousands of Mladic supporters held protests in Belgrade and
   in the former general's birthplace, the town of Kalinovik in
   southeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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