cut short
because of his client's poor physical state.
The arrest of General Mladic has been widely
acclaim
ed overseas. President Obama said that he hoped the families of General Mladic's victims would find some
solace
in the arrest. But Ratko Mladic also has many supporters in Serbia. Social media sites on the Internet suggest that they do not want him to be sent to The Hague tribunal. Nenad Vukicevic, who runs a Serbian nationalist website, believes that General Mladic would not get a fair trial.
"Reconciliation is impossible when the basis for reconciliation is injustice, and The Hague has shown many times in the past decade that it's a court which
has nothing to do with
justice and legitimacy. It's illegitimate, and it's served the will and purpose of the Western powers to implement their version of history of what happened here."
The United Nations court for Rwanda says a top genocide suspect has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The man, Bernard Munyagishari, is accused of being a
mastermind
in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda. Here's Will Ross.
Bernard Munyagishari had been on the run for 17 years, but was
apprehend
ed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where many who took part in the 1994 genocide have been hiding and causing misery for the Congolese population. Mr Munyagishari, who was once a teacher and a football referee, now faces charges of genocide, murder and rape. He's expected to be