Leading war crimes suspect captured in Bosnia

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BELGRADE (AFP) — A former Bosnian Serb general high on the list of fugitives wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal was captured Thursday in Bosnia and his transfer to The Hague under way, officials said.

Zdravko Tolimir, a close ally of the tribunal's most-wanted man, former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, was apprehended in a joint operation near the Serbian border by Bosnian and Serbian police, they said.

The 58-year-old faces an indictment from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys -- the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

His capture means only five suspects wanted by the ICTY remain at large including Mladic and his wartime political leader Radovan...