"Brother Serbs, this is a unique opportunity to take vengeance on Turks. Do not miss it," Mladic said on July 11, 1995, after his troops surged into Srebrenica, a UN safe haven in eastern Bosnia.
Around 8,000 Muslim boys and men were slaughtered in the few days after Dutch UN peacekeepers abandoned the town. Women and children were driven out.
"More than anything I want to see Mladic in prison. Thirteen men from my family were killed in the massacre," said Husein Karic, an elderly Srebrenica resident who miraculously escaped death in 1995.
The Hague tribunal has indicted 18 Serbian and Bosnian Serb military and political officials in connection with the Srebrenica massacre. Mladic, his political supremo Radovan Karadzic and the wartime Bosnian Serb army security chief, Zdravko Tolimir, are the only ones who remain at large.
US troops arrested Karadzic's son Sasa Karadzic, 32, in his father's former stronghold of Pale on Thursday and NATO forces say they will keep Sasa in custody until he reveals information which may lead to his father's capture.
"He will be kept in detention for as long as it takes for us to get information we believe he has," NATO spokesman in Sarajevo Derek Chappell said yesterday.
Sasa Karadzic's mother Ljiljana and sister Sonja protested what they called a "kidnapping" and said the family had not had any contact with Radovan Karadzic for years.
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