Aide to war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested in Serbia James M Yoch Jr at 2:51 PM ET
[JURIST] Former Serbian army officer Sasa Badnjar, a suspected accomplice of fugitive war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC profile] has been arrested for aiding Mladic's evasion of arrest, Serbian authorities said Thursday. Mladic has successfully avoided arrest, allegedly due to assistance from army officers formerly in his command, on an indictment [text] for the 1995 massacre [BBC timeline] of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.
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