Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade on the run from war crimes charges, Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Thursday.
Mladic is accused of playing a key role in the murder of some 7,500 men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. His detention follows the arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008.
Tadic said Serbia would extradite Mladic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He also said this would open the door to Serbia's membership of the European Union.
Serbian media say Mladic was seized in Vojvodina, a northern province of Serbia, early on Thursday. Tadic only said he had been arrested in Serbia.
Mladic's arrest comes shortly after UN war crimes chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz accused Serbia of not doing enough to detain him.
SARAJEVO, May 26 (RIA Novosti)
