Serbs no closer to arresting war fugitive despite aid cut
By Tom Hundley, Chicago Tribune June 18, 2006
BELGRADE, Serbia -- The general still has his admirers.
In the musty headquarters of the Center for the Investigation of War Crimes Against Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, his portrait is prominently displayed on the wall behind Ljubisa Ristic's desk.
``My personal opinion is that he is a true soldier and a hero of the Serbian people," Ristic said.
It is not clear how many other Serbs feel that way about General Ratko Mladic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb army and chief executor of its ethnic cleansing campaign.
``I'd say 75 percent of the Serbs see him as a war hero," said Aleksandar Tijanic, who heads the state-run television network in Serbia. ``But if you ask them if he should he go to The Hague to save the Serbs from more suffering, 75 percent would say yes."
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