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Bosnia Fugitive Is Hero to Some, Butcher to Others
Aug 5 2008, Celso Camargo

BOZINOVICI, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Ratko Mladic, accused in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II and now the most wanted fugitive for the atrocities in the Balkan wars, grew up in this poor, remote mountain village that is blanketed with...

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