It would appear that a man, identified by the Serbian authorities as Ratko Mladic, has been arrested in.. er.. Serbia, having been in hiding for a decade.
I do hope we are going to afford him the courtesy of being considered innocent until proven guilty. The BBC News Channel described him as 'Europe's most wanted war criminal'. I have a feeling that if DSK (Dominic Strawss-Cohen Est Angl) had been described as 'New York's most wanted rapist' there might have been some small activity on the defamation front.
An interesting point was made by a man interviewed by, I think, Radio 4. Since we all, for nearly twenty years, seem quite comfortable with the results of Mladic's policy (only 5% of refugees have managed to return, with no efforts to change this, and so the ethnic cleansing has been tacitly approved internationally) we can hardly call him a criminal: we agree with him.
The Serbian president, Boris Tadic, has said that nothing now stands in the way of his country joining the European Union.
The current EU rules are that any newly joining country simultaneously signs up for the euro.
Just thought I'd mention it.
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