Serbia launched another search Friday for genocide suspect Ratko Mladic, as special police raided a house in a central town on orders from Serbia's war crimes prosecutor. Officials said special policemen searched the home in Arandjelovac, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of the Serbian capital. The building belongs to a man believed to be helping the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander in his run from justice. “We have information that the (house) owner belongs to a web of Mladic's helpers,” said Rasim Ljajic, a member of a government team in charge of arresting the fugitives. Mladic has been on the run since 1995, when he was indicted for genocide by the UN war crimes court for former Yugoslavia for allegedly masterminded the 1995 slaughter of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and an armed siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Earlier this month, masked policemen searched the Belgrade home of Mladic's son and four other sites in what appeared an intensified hunt for the former general. Days earlier, a factory in western Serbia – owned by a suspected Mladic financier – was also searched. But Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive was not found. Friday's search coincided with the scheduled delivery of a report to the UN Security Council on Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal by chief UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz. Mladic's extradition to the tribunal is the major condition set by the European Union for granting pre-membership status to Serbia. Serbia in July arrested the wartime Bosnian Serb political leader, Radovan Karadzic, and handed him over to The Hague after more than 10 years on the run.
