Serbia ramps up reward for fugitive general Mladic

Serbia's government yesterday raised its reward for the capture of Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic from €1 million (£872,000) to €10m (£8.7m).

By The Newsroom

Published 28th Oct 2010, 17:33 BST

Updated 29th Oct 2010, 00:05 BST

The government also offered €1m for the arrest of wartime Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic, up from €250,000. The rewards were first announced back in 2007.

Gen Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb army commander, is accused by a UN war crimes court of organising the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim boys and men from Srebrenica in 1995 and besieging Sarajevo for three years.

Mr Hadzic is charged with crimes against humanity during Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991-95.

Both are believed to be hiding in Serbia.