Bosnian Serb fugitive arrested
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A former Bosnian Serb general was arrested on the border between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, police said.
Zdravko Tolimir, indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal, was a top aide to Gen. Ratko Mladic during the slaughter of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995.
Olga Kavran, the spokeswoman for the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor, said preparations for Tolimir’s transfer to the United Nations detention facility near The Hague, in the Netherlands, were underway.
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