Article: Copenhagen artists challenge war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic _ with humor

KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-14-2006
Dateline: BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro
No one has poked fun at top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic quite like this before.

Two Danish poster artists set out this week to challenge the popular nationalist mantra here that the former Bosnian Serb commander was a hero who defended Serbs during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Their weapon _ light blue stickers with provocative messages.

"We know when you are having sex," read one sticker, typed in Serbian. "We know you are a coward," proclaimed another.

Hundreds of pro-Mladic posters plastered earlier in the week in the Serbian capital by a far-right nationalist group, showing a uniformed ...

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