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Article: International: Ratko Mladic cancels all his shopping trips
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- July 13, 1997
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ONE day last week in Belgrade a short, bulky man with an
overhanging gut, close-cropped grey hair and a thick neck was
spotted wandering around a shopping centre, looking in the windows.
Around him were, according to the witness who tipped off the
press, at least four bodyguards: taller, younger, less paunchy
versions of their boss. All were armed. Few passers-by greeted him.
Ratko Mladic, the former military commander of the Bosnian Serb
forces, is best left alone.
It was a big week for Ratko. Friday was the second anniversary of
the fall of Srbrenica; he besieged it, captured it, reassured its
inhabitants, then ordered the mass murder of the boys and men.
Maybe Mladic is psychotic. I once ...