Serbian Ex-Fugitives Mladic and Karadzic Reunite in Court

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/29/2014 - 5:18am |

By Dan Bilefsky, The Lede @ nytimes.com, Jan. 28, 2014

PARIS — One is a former warrior known as the Butcher of Bosnia who spent more than 15 years on the run in his native Serbia, where he was finally captured. [VIDEO}

The other is a sometime poet and psychologist who evaded arrest in Serbia for more than a decade, disguised in the final years as a bearded New Age guru. [VIDEO]

In an hourlong hearing on Tuesday that mixed tragedy and farce, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb former general, was reunited with his old political boss, Radovan Karadzic. It was the first time the men had been seen together in public since the aftermath of the Bosnian war, which ended in December 1995. Both stand accused of war crimes [....]

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