in VOA Special English.This week, Serbiaarrested one of Europe'smost wanted men.Former Bosnian Serb generalRatko Mladic spent sixteen yearsin hiding.He is accused of genocideand other crimes during the warfought after Bosnia-Herzegovinadeclared its independence.The International Criminal Tribunalfor the former Yugoslaviaannounced charges againstMr. Mladic in nineteen ninety-five.He is charged with the killingof eight thousand Bosnian Muslim menand boys that year at Srebrenica,a town on the border of Serbia.Srebrenica was supposedto have been protectedas a United Nations "safe area."Mr. Mladic is also accused of orderingor carrying out war crimesduring the three yearsin which Sarajevowas surrounded and attacked.His son, Darko Mladic, sayshis father is not in good health.He also says his father believeshe is not guilty of the charges.But on Friday, a courtin Belgrade ruled that Ratko Mladicis healthy enough to be triedin the Netherlands.His lawyer saidhe would appeal the ruling.Russia, an ally of Serbia,has called for a fair trial.The capture of Mr. Mladicwas a condition for Serbiato become a candidateto join the European Union.Another condition has beenthe capture of formerCroatian Serb political leaderGoran Hadzic,who has yet to be arrested.The wartime political leaderof the Bosnian Serbs,Radovan Karadzic, was capturedin two thousand eight.He also faced charges in The Hague,but his trial was suspended.Former Serbian presidentSlobodan Milosevic also wentbefore the tribunal,but he died during his trial.Serbia has been under intenseinternational pressureto arrest Ratko Mladic.President Boris Tadic announcedthat he was arrested Thursday morning.The former general wasat a farmhouse in a village aboutone hundred kilometers from Belgrade.The arrest happened during a visitby Catherine Ashton,the foreign policy chieffor the European Union.But President Tadic dismissedthe suggestion that the governmentcould have acted sooner.BORIS TADIC: "We are not makingcalculations when and how to deliver.We are doing that becausewe truly believe this isin accordance with our law."The Serbian president saidthere will be an investigationinto how Mr. Mladicavoided arrest for so long.Kada Hotic from the Mothersof Srebrenica Associationaccused Serbia of knowinglyhiding a man she calls a "monster."Still, she and other family membersof victims welcomed the arrest,while some Bosnian Serbsexpressed anger.JAMES KER-LINDSAY: "Many Serbs, yes,do regard Ratko Mladicas some sort of hero."James Ker-Lindsay is an experton southeast Europeat the London School of Economics.JAMES KER-LINDSAY: "They look to the eventsthat took place in Bosniaand rather than seeing himas a military leader of an actof aggression rather view himas being the defenderof the Bosnian Serb people.So in that sense,there is a certain degreeof latent support for him."But Mr. Ker-Lindsay saysSerbs are conflicted becausethey understand that their country'sfuture has to be a part of Europe.JAMES KER-LINDSAY: "It's not aboutforgetting what took placein Bosnia or, indeed,the entire Western Balkansin the nineteen nineties.But it's about recognizingthat Serbia's got to atone for thispay its price and move on.And people understand thatMladic is absolutely centralto that process."And that's IN THE NEWSin VOA Special English.