Blog: Ratko Mladic: The Hooligans’ Hero
Protests in Belgrade following Ratko Mladic’s arrest (Photo: Nate Tabak)
The images of Ratko Mladic gracing Serbia’s front pages and newscasts showed a frail shell of the stocky former Bosnian Serb wartime commander who went into hiding 16 years ago. But his capture Thursday inspired a frenzied nighttime rage among several hundred mostly young men who played a cat-and-mouse game with riot police in Belgrade’s Republic Square, the nucleus of Serbia’s capital […]
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