Reporter Allan Little covered the Balkan Wars for the BBC.
He has a reflection on that time, including the day he met Bosnia Serb General Ratko Mladic.
"I shook his hand," Little said. "He held it firmly and wouldn't let go for what seemed to me to be many minutes. He drew unnervingly close — just a few inches from my face."
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