Published Date:
24 January 2009
By Dusan Stojanovic
TURN IN Ratko Mladic for 1 million? No way, say almost two-thirds of Serbs, who still consider the genocide suspect a national hero.
The Belgrade-based Strategic Marketing said only 14 per cent of people answered yes when asked in its poll whether they would provide information leading to the capture the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander, whose arrest comes with a 1 million bounty.
Sixty-five per cent responded no. The rest said they would not know what to do if they knew where Mladic is hiding.
The former general has been evading justice since 1995, when he was charged with genocide by a United Nations war crimes court for the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica by his troops – the worst carnage in Europe since the Second World War.
Many Serbs still revere Mladic, believing he saved the Christian Orthodox Serbs from Bosnian Muslim domination during the war, which claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Earlier this month, police put up wanted posters across Serbia offering the reward for his capture. Serbia has been told it must arrest him if it wants to move closer to European Union membership. Officials say that Serbia has stepped up the search.
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Last Updated:
23 January 2009 10:30 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
The Balkans
