Belgrade, Serbia (CNN) — When police burst into the garden of the small house in northern Serbia where Europe’s highest-ranking war crimes suspect had been hiding, the former Bosnian Serb general was found standing against a wall in a utility room normally used for storing farm equipment, a government minister told CNN. Ratko Mladic — the target of a near 16-year manhunt — gave himself up without a fight, despite being in possession of two handguns, according to Rasim Ljajic, the minister in charge of searching for fugitive suspected war criminals. Officials located Mladic in a village called Lazarevo, north of the Serbian capital, after culling information from his former comrades, those…
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