Extradition Process Underway for War Crimes Fugitive Ratko Mladic

The Takeaway

Ratko Mladic was seized in Serbia on Thursday after he’d been in hiding for over a decade. The former general has been charged with genocide, he’s been held responsible for the massacre of over 7,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 and has evaded justice ever since. The BBC’s world affairs correspondent Adam Mynott reports.

Are you with The World?

The story you just read is available to read for free because thousands of listeners and readers like you generously support our nonprofit newsroom. Every day, the reporters and producers at The World are hard at work bringing you human-centered news from across the globe. But we can’t do it without you: We need your support to ensure we can continue this work for another year.

When you make a gift of $10 or more a month, we’ll invite you to a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our newsroom to thank you for being with The World.