Current Events #5

- Serbia offers $14m for Mladic 
- By: Not Stated, Source: Agencies
- 28 Oct 2010 18:05 GMT
- http://english.aljazeera.net/
- http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/10/2010102815143320435.html
- Th reward for the capture of Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic was increased.
- Serbia's government has increased the reward for the information or capture of Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic. Mladic is a former Bosnian Serb army commander and Hadzic is a former Croatian Serb Leader. Mladic's bounty rose from 1.4 million to 14 million and Hadzic's bounty rose from 350 thousand to 1.4 million. Both of these men are wanted fugitives by the UN court for war crimes. Mladic is accused of organizing the massacre of 8,000 Muslims and being the mastermind of the siege on the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The siege killed about 10,000 people. Hadzic is charged with 14 accounts of war crimes and crimes against humanity such as the killing of Croatian civilians.
- When I read the title of the article I thought Serbia was trying to buy land from another country. When, I read a little bit of the article I learned that it's about two fugitives. Wanting to know more I continue to read on. It surprised me that there was actually a non-fictional person with such a high bounty as 14 million.
- The article was about a boost in the reward for information leading to the capture of a former Bosnian Serb army commander and a former Croatian Serb leader. When I was reading this article I remembered the things I learned from my homework. Serbia's government is willing to pay 14 million for the capture of Ratko Mladic. In my homework I learned about Nationalism. During the 1800s, many people wanted to build nation-states. One of the nation-states that was created during this time was Serbia.