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Bosnia Fugitive Is Hero to Some, Butcher to Others
new york times
05-Aug-2008 (one comment)

BOZINOVICI, Bosnia and Herzegovina [1] — Ratko Mladic [2], accused in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II and now the most wanted fugitive for the atrocities in the Balkan wars, grew up in this poor, remote mountain village that is blanketed with crows. Here, as in many places where Serbs live, his military prowess, his undeniable suffering and the imponderable scale of the crimes he is accused of have made him as much a national myth as a man.

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