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Wanted posters go up for Bosnian war fugitive

The police put up wanted posters across Serbia on Sunday offering a €1 million reward for the capture of wartime Bosnian Serb Army commander, Ratko Mladic.

Posters carrying photographs of Mladic, the former general charged with genocide, and another war crimes fugitive, Goran Hadzic, were distributed to all police stations in Serbia.

Mladic is charged with genocide by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He is accused of orchestrating the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica - the worst carnage in Europe since World War II - and the armed siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, during the 1992-95 war.

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