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Article: A monster on the loose: Ratko Mladic has been indicted twice for war crimes. So why doesn't someone arrest him? (Serbian murder and rape in Bosnia)
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- Newsweek
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- April 22, 1996
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ONLY 13 MILES OF twisting mountain road separate their headquarters. At the top of the mountain, holed up in a warren of bunkers, is Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander, a tough-talking bantam of a man who is the most wanted of Bosnia's alleged war criminals. At the bottom of the mountain is Camp Lisa, home to the equally tough-talking Col. John Batiste, a brigade commander in the U.S. First Armored Division. The two men probably hope they never meet on a dark mountain road. Mladic is a fugitive from international justice, having been indicted twice by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Batiste, as a leader of NATO's Implementation Force ...