Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic arrested: Survivors respond
Photo of Ratko Mladic arriving for UN talks in 1993 (Image by Evstafiev Mikhail (cc:by-sa))
Now that Ratko Mladic has been arrested, accused of war crimes including genocide, some of these stories can now be made public. Dr. Denisa Kostovicova, Balkans expert and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics, and Dejan Anastasijevic, a political journalist with the journal, Vreme in Belgrade, help contextualize the event.
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