Prosecutor: We consider Mladić alive

Serbia is most interested in finding and extraditing Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic stated. The former Bosnian Serb military leader and the former Croatian Serb political leader have been indicted by the Hague Tribunal for war crimes. Prosecutor: We consider Mladic alive “Assessment of Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz about Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal is quite realistic,” Vukcevic told Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti. “Brammertz took into consideration all our efforts. Our relationship and level of understanding with him is exceptionally fair. And what’s most important, we all strive toward the same goal – bringing the last Hague fugitives to justice,” Vukcevic said. The war crimes prosecutor saidBrammertz’s recommendation that the strategy in Serbia should be reevaluated and search expanded and intensified were “technical details”. “Those are our common conclusions,” he pointed out. Vukcevic said that he did not expect that the First Municipal Court in Belgrade would declare Mladic legally deceased, as requested recently by his family, and said Brammertz "also stated that the general was still alive". The Serbian war crimes prosecutor did not wish to comment on the hearing before a British court regarding extradition of former Muslim member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s war-time Presidency Ejup Ganic. Ganic is wanted in Serbia for war crimes committed against former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) soldiers in Dobrovoljacka St. in Sarajevo in May 1992. But Vukcevic stated that he had new information about the organ harvesting case, when the prosecution believes hundreds of Kosovo Serb civilians were kidnapped in 1999 by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), to be taken to northern Albania and have their organs extracted before they were murdered. The case is informally known as the Yellow House. According to Vukcevic, the chances to reveal who was behind these monstrous crimes "are getting better". He explained that he was constantly receiving information about persons who were involved in that criminal chain. “Our cooperation with EULEX is very good and we expect that it will yield results. EULEX is investigating (prison) camps in northern Albania, while our investigation is directed both toward the camps and toward the organ trafficking,” he explained. The war crimes prosecutor also said that he would soon speak to Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljevic about this case, since he believes that department could put in "a lot of work too".

Prosecutor: We consider Mladić alive

“Assessment of Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz about Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal is quite realistic,” Vukčević told Belgrade daily Večernje novosti.

“Brammertz took into consideration all our efforts. Our relationship and level of understanding with him is exceptionally fair. And what’s most important, we all strive toward the same goal – bringing the last Hague fugitives to justice,” Vukčević said.

The war crimes prosecutor saidBrammertz’s recommendation that the strategy in Serbia should be reevaluated and search expanded and intensified were “technical details”.

“Those are our common conclusions,” he pointed out.

Vukčević said that he did not expect that the First Municipal Court in Belgrade would declare Mladić legally deceased, as requested recently by his family, and said Brammertz
"also stated that the general was still alive".

The Serbian war crimes prosecutor did not wish to comment on the hearing before a British court regarding extradition of former Muslim member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s war-time Presidency Ejup Ganić.

Ganić is wanted in Serbia for war crimes committed against former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) soldiers in Dobrovoljačka St. in Sarajevo in May 1992.

But Vukčević stated that he had new information about the organ harvesting case, when the prosecution believes hundreds of Kosovo Serb civilians were kidnapped in 1999 by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), to be taken to northern Albania and have their organs extracted before they were murdered.

The case is informally known as the Yellow House.

According to Vukčević, the chances to reveal who was behind these monstrous crimes "are getting better". He explained that he was constantly receiving information about persons who were involved in that criminal chain.

“Our cooperation with EULEX is very good and we expect that it will yield results. EULEX is investigating (prison) camps in northern Albania, while our investigation is directed both toward the camps and toward the organ trafficking,” he explained.

The war crimes prosecutor also said that he would soon speak to Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljević about this case, since he believes that department could put in "a lot of work too".