The devolution of Ratko Mladic

It is turning out to be a bad season for high-profile and elusive fugitives. From Pakistan to Serbia, the world’s most wanted men are falling like dominoes. Ratimir (“Ratko”) Mladic’s life is an especially macabre illustration of the turbulent twentieth-century history of the country formerly known as Yugoslavia. Indeed, his life eerily shadows the re-birth of Yugoslavia (literally, “the land of the southern Slavs”) in 1945 from the devastation and violence of World War II, the four ensuing decades of relative prosperity and apparent stability in the multinational, federal and single-party state created by the Yugoslav communist movement

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