next we profile the controversial balkan war figure iraq comb luggage the former bosnian serb military leader currently on trial at the hague. in late may two thousand and eleven the small serbian village of law as it ever shot to fame leading newspapers in many countries splashed its name across the front pages it was here the serbian police arrested general ratko adage this is the place where it happened and. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted fifteen years serbia had promised a one million euro ward for his capture. the general's arrests triggered acts of protest in many serbian towns. some of the serbian people are worried because the hague and international media are smearing our hero of. something is

a war criminal others believe he's a victim many events of his life especially in recent years are still shrouded in mystery. the small village of laos it ever is situated in central serbia a repair shop and a couple of cafes are one and the church a cemetery and a school or of the other the village looks like many others in serbia. brad cohen lederach the general of the serbian on the spent the last few days before his arrest hiding here in the house of his brother in law branco. for more than year more often on friendly terms with branco for six years some of them i walked into his garden every day but never saw the general people here are not in the habit of walking the arcades in homes but some time ago brain called began doing just that

we thought why do you lock the door it's on branco are you hiding your brother two million the role model he simply left off my question. as in many villages. everything is out in the open here and yet even neighbors did not suspect that an internationally wanted man was saying in a nearby house. i didn't know was hiding here before the. place. the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia at the hague charged with genocide and the murder of both prisoners and civilians during the conflict in.

the small village of. is situated on a mountain pass. most of the houses a shared by his close and distant relatives. was born in this house i was born a little later. to gether. holidays are not a common thing for country folk the mountains of servia are especially rigorous. if they want to survive peasants need to till the soil much harder than in the lowlands. close was not over that my first cut grass with a rocker when i was eight years old one may know he was the best moa here and i learned the skills from him what authority of course the now on the best and was a place. of the three of you. in accordance with the patriarchal traditions

of peasant families the oldest male is supposed to care for the family. rocklin that it was born in one nine hundred forty three during world war two his father died in battle when rocco was still a child. from then on he was the man of the house. is how i went out to hard working people do but lazy people always got a dressing down or a feels when he almost told me to pieces whenever i tried to get out of my shorts years and in the interim work in the field and school very seriously he always was at the top of his class in military school and we were all very proud of him to want to refute that. recommend it began his career as an officer in the yugoslav army is incorporated all ethnic groups live in the balkans. after world war two there was a multi-ethnic federation that was made a prostate school different ethnic populations. by severe fear of being all

officers of the former yugoslavia were a yugoslav as far as their convictions were concerned they became serum software only after the breakup of yugoslavia be area that broadcom love each was one of those who believed in yugoslavia he believed there were still a chance so for evolving it but he changed his views in one thousand nine hundred ninety three after seeing the muslims murdering serbs they were trying to create an islamic country in an area populated by serbs with where he himself had been born. a vicious civil war broke out in the slums republic of bosnia and nine hundred ninety two about half of the people here follow his around and call. sells pulse and muslims a little more than a third catholic croatians but should first supported the serbs but ultimately sided with muslims. in april ninety ninety two the serb surrounded the bosnian

capital sorry a vote muslims made up the majority of the city's population. the siege of sarajevo lasted four years. traces of the siege can still be found on the streets of syria. many locals lost relatives here. i was away at work on october the tenth ninety four point zero one hundred twenty five millimeter shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded twenty eight days later they died in hospital. and me greatly to see this suffering i really wish they had died right there and then they wouldn't have suffered so much. according to the hague tribunal the siege of sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand deaths. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures were

cited and one of the grave ist indictments of rock come at age. two the war in sarajevo started when muslim terrorists attacked a serbian wedding even started to boil when muslim terrorists attacked a column of the former yugoslav people's. volage a street where muslim terrorists were shooting at civilians and soldiers the muslims did everything to involve the world community especially the nato pact to fight all of the saw it for their goals by staging the various terrorist acts. that he did. during the war bosnia was divided into two countries. the muslims called their part the republic of bosnia and herzegovina. the serbs called the public service. rather than courage previously a practicing psychiatry first became leader of the serbs as well as president he

was also formally known as the commander in chief. rather than courage didn't have the right skills to command troops he had authority humanitarian frame of mind because of his character in occupation war in a parliamentary public service good to get that into account when it elected right can lot of the army's chief of staff. the president and the chief of staff for public soaps had an uneasy relationship the two men played according to their own rules. then been under pressure by the international community card has signed a plan to divide both mia between muslims and serbs america and europe had guaranteed peace and all sides involved had promised to lay down their arms if the plan was signed but not it showed a map to members of parliament making clear what the serbs with louis was divided in that way in the payment as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan it turned it down as it were courage

had to renounce his signature. by the end of the war tensions between the president and the chief of staff had reached an all time high rather than courage signed a decree forcing luggage to resign. in july of ninety ninety five the hague tribunal indicted both from similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. but i have heard those accusations of the hague tribunal against me yes i am a person who belongs to my people. just like my ancestors my people with the first to stop. i don't recognize any troilus except the trial of my own people here i don't need to defend myself because these idiotic accusations come from places which are being churning out law is true kiyo publicly.

in one nine hundred ninety six nato demanded that carrot it should be handed over to the hague tribunal. that same year both bosnian leaders disappeared from bosnia . when the carriage was on the wanted list he had no contact with any of his relatives he rented a flat in belgrade posing as dr dragon davidge he grew long hair and beard and more thick rimmed glasses as a disguise. current it openly appeared on the streets and even found employment. often went shopping and frequented the cafe near his house where he spent time sitting amongst pictures of himself and. the freedom for a camel image. today serbian patriots regard this cafe as a veritable mecca. here young people are taken on

a going to tour. the cafes owner me sure read it was on friendly terms with both carried it around nottage over this drink a toast to kurdish and red come alive which let's wish them a fair trial an early release because they are not guilty of what they're charged with i hope that they can join us here soon as possible and we can drink together. rather than carrot it was on a wanted list for twelve years before he was arrested and extradited to the hague in two thousand and eight. was in hiding for fifteen years serbian police arrested him on may twenty sixth two thousand and eleven. redken ladish could have stayed in hiding much longer had he not used a cell phone and had he not been in touch with relatives even distant ones when you're cut off from all sources of financing you have to turn to people you know

the trouble though is that they may already be under surveillance that's how you get caught. the police are in no hurry to disclose the details of how he was able to evade arrest for fifteen years. to the press claim he frequented his brother in law's house in the village of loss of many times. was in the room behind the second window he saw and heard the rubble of the police told me what i was supposed to do during his arrest he was carrying two pistols and. this is what he said to them i could have killed you any time it's over but i didn't do it because you're not guilty of anything. and it was extradited to the hague in early june two thousand and eleven according to his lawyer the former general had suffered three strokes and a heart attack while he was on the run at the hague tribunal ruled the outcome luggage was fit to stand trial. on the estimates in you in any way

i hear better in my left ear and my head is cool let me put my cap on. my body is not functioning. july the fourth two thousand and eleven sorry the capital of the muslim republic of bosnia and herzegovina this rally has gathered on a square to watch a live broadcast from the trial at the hague more than anyone else these people blame. for the deaths of their husbands brothers and children. the same day the s. and p. thirty nine thousand no news movement held one of its regular protest actions in serbia's capital belgrade. some still going for consider we are not out to

vandalize buildings or the city this is a political act that would be normal anywhere else for the s.n.p. thirteen eighty nine supports and the fans are heroes radical moderates and radovan carriage was the officer they defended the serbian people on their own soil we founded our organization to help protect our heroes from the slander campaign of the hague tribunal. according to a public opinion poll more than half of the so population were against rafa being handed over to the hague tribunal. but nearly a quarter of the country's population accuse the government of deliberately dragging their feet of the search from luggage. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to you and i says you have a real measuring stick time to write the obituary for the euro as a single currency reels from one crisis to the next europe's politicians appear to

be powerless in the face of a. the quiet provincial town of srebrenica is one of many in bosnia only the walls of several buildings pockmarked with bullets and shells serve as a reminder of the bitter fighting between serbs and muslims. even though there are many serbian villages around. the town has a predominantly muslim population. what was later called a massacre took place here in one nine hundred ninety five the cooling to different

sources anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand people were either killed or went missing. the main blame for the killings is on rock co-manage. three thousand are used all three of my sons and so i lost my husband. what can i say about it i just look around at all these people who are in guilty of anything there they were. back in one thousand nine hundred three. was a muslim enclave on the territory of a self declared entity called republika srpska. trowbridge so was surrounded by i'm not a just troops but muslim troops led by now so all the church were in control of the situation inside the town. gender in the seventh is christmas for the orthodox church on that day in one thousand nine hundred three now storage is troops

launched a massive attack on nearby serbian villages. the village of cravats is fifteen kilometers from. cristo story on of each a serb has lived here with his family since his birth. on january the seventh one thousand nine hundred three he was on the front line in the afternoon he and fellow soldiers were told that the muslims had captured cravats after attacking it from. the serbs were ordered to retreat. so then this if. i could be there to cry it's only after troops liberated the village seventy two days after there was a very strange of burnt flash in the village i found the body of my father and a hundred meters from the house. had been stabbed in the gut. had backed out his face. this footage filmed by police shows serbs massacred in

villages around. various estimates put the number of serbian villages ruined by not so rich his troops during the war more than one hundred. the names of three thousand two hundred sixty two casualties have now been established. post-mortem reports make it clear the most of the people were tortured before they were killed . service minister for public health zoran stankovic worked at the institute for forensic studies during the war he witnessed the inquest into the deaths of the serbs and examinations from mass graves in bosnia. we saw the bodies of captives military men with their heads chopped off one served for example had been hit on the head with a blunt object and his eyes had been cut out moreover it was clear that his eyes

were moved when he was still alive many of the bodies for signs of a very cruel method of murder we informed the hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a little records. one of the most popular theories concerning caesar a strip of not of just troops is that it was an act of revenge against muslims. nine hundred ninety three un resolution called on peacekeeping forces to just samba combat formations that entrenched themselves and strengthen it so the muslim enclave was declared a demilitarized zone. the dutch battalion of brutal race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. well most of those not unionise here instead of disarming the muslim formations here as they had committed themselves to under the agreement on srebrenica signed by mean and general more your united nations forces turned those safe areas into terrorist and fundamentalist bases from where the villages and

towns were attacked it's a chip of the starting from nine hundred ninety three we haven't taken a single action against reverend despite watching how the muslims saw it and what was being done in this but sometimes they even used helicopters to airlift weapons from iraq. to serve ami waited for the disarmament of nascar riches troops for nearly two years before wrath come luggage decided to storm strip in the summer of one thousand nine hundred five. serbian troops captured the city on july the eleventh. according to another theory the government of bosnia and herzegovina simply gave strober needs or away to the serbs. nationalists thirty one years i've lost in one hundred ninety three myself and other public figures from srebrenica and met with me as president i liaise a bag of it. so this is what he said to us if the serbs into trouble it's something

like five thousand muslims died that would create a good excuse for an eighty two invasion nato forces would then stop bombarding serbian units. of. thousands of dead bodies on both sides. mothers without children wives without husbands. distrust and hatred between those who wants neighbors. that is the outcome of the standoff intrapreneur. or for ties were pink with the crimes were committed by both sides most of the muslims were shot and killed the most people are. tests shows that they were killed from a distance may mean that some of them died in battle most of the crimes against serbs were not perpetrated before. they were simply murdered in cold blood or their heads or chopped off. with. the hague tribunal

gave the commander of the group of muslim troops. two years in prison after a second trial he was acquitted and orange. in two thousand and eight he was arrested by police for extortion and unlawful possession of. today the former commander feels comfortable in his home in the town of. people in my country. feel very bitter about the rulings of the hague tribunal simply because there reflect double standards the pertinent question is whether the expertise of the tribunals. there are also questions about the professionalism of those who belittle the gills or. not it was already on the wanted list up until two thousand and three to no special

precautions to go into hiding. his government had not even stripped him of his bodyguards. in the ninety's rather than belgrade from the house where his son now has an office for his small firm from two thousand on woods serbian police began regular round ups and searches in the homes of not it his closest relatives they just still unclear where the general was at that time. i don't think i need to talk about my father's life even today it is the subject of too much speculation i will not say when i saw him last before his arrest i can only say that we stayed here together during the one thousand nine hundred ninety bombardment of belgrade i did see my father after his arrest but i am not allowed to talk with the media about anything relating to the hague tribunal that us on the part. of the suv in population was

angered by wrecked his arrest there were actions in support of the general in many cities and. demonstrators demanded that the government resign because they felt it was betraying the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in a clash with the police. this is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lot it's to be handed over to the hague tribunal and reads are yours are not for wasting to the hague. activists from the serbian youth organization want all people who committed crimes in the former yugoslavia to be handed over to the hague tribunal this petition campaign is just one example of the frequent activities on the streets of belgrade to support the movement. these young people make no distinction between muslim and

criminals they feel tensions in the balkans died down once all those wanted by the hague tribunal brought to justice. country in the territory of the former yugoslavia has its own version of history each of them has its own heroes and criminals this is a very bad situation it is a breeding ground for future conflict. with. the serbian government has now handed over all remains. by the hague tribunal in the proceedings on how judge the last suspect on the wanted list was captured on july the twentieth two thousand and eleven. well slow the european union wants serbia to me quite a few conditions before it can become an e.u. member but so far we have been unable to comply with all of them so the rest of carriage and how to church has paved the way for talks about

a possible entry into the a you. syrian society is split over the prospect of merging with great to europe more than half of serbs polled distrust the new. wall rather than carrot it was still in hiding from the police the phrase rather than courage it street was written on the house way lived. and after the rest of ratko adage a growing number of images of him might be seen clearing on the streets of belgrade.

this is all a team from moscow one main story dominating on the used to no i did a plane carrying a champion ice hockey a locomotive got our stuff was crushed into saving two hundred seventy kilometers

northeast of moscow two people out of the forty five on board the fold to survive the disaster but they're in a critical condition as cut up with correspondents on the scene of thomas scenes there with the latest for us as the eye was drawn here this of course happened early evening moscow time and as the hours and gone more eyewitness accounts and come into us throughout the night recounting the horror of what they sold. well that's true kevin of course it is a very tragic night for everyone here in it jaroslav all as jaroslava locomotive was a favorite it was a three time champion of the k h l so a very tragic night for this city and for the country and for hockey in general people who saw the plane why witnesses of the account say that they witnessed a plane going up by a yacht forty two and not making enough. speed or lift to get.