(22 Feb 2006) STORYLINE:
Tuzla
1. Various exterior shots of NATO base where it is believed Ratko Mladic would be taken if he is captured or surrenders (sign reads: Welcome to Eagle Base" )
2. Travelling shot along perimeter of base
3. Shot of base through security fence
Sarajevo
4. Wide street scene of Sarajevo
5. Man reading at newspaper kiosk
6. Various shots of newspaper headlines, one reading: "Mladic has not been arrested"
SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Voxpop:
"I doubt he has been arrested. It's all lies. They are just deceiving us as always."
8. Wide street scene
9. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Voxpop:
"I wish they would hand him over to the Srebrenica women. I know what they would do to him."
10. Tilt up buildings
Pale
11. Wide of street scene
12. Newspaper headlines
13. Woman reading newspaper
14. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Voxpop:
"Probably he is not arrested. I don't think he should be arrested."
15. Mid shot newspapers
16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Voxpop:
"I heard the news. I think they can't catch him. I think they are chasing him for no reason. He is a hero for us and he is untouchable. I wish him a long life without being caught."
17. Wide street scenes
STORYLINE
Residents across Bosnia on Wednesday reacted to reports that war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, charged with genocide for some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war, has been located and that security officials were negotiating his surrender.
On Tuesday the private Beta news agency, without citing its sources, said Mladic had been found on Cer Mountain, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Belgrade on the border with Bosnia.
Serbia's state news agency Tanjug quoted Bosnian Serb BN television that Mladic was arrested and was "being transported" to the US-run air force base in Tuzla, eastern Bosnia, from where he was to be flown to The Hague.
But the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte on Wednesday forcefully denied the reports, as did the Serbian government.
Del Ponte urged Serbia to immediately arrest Mladic, repeating her long-held view that the former general is in Serbia enjoying the protection of the authorities there.
Mladic, who was head of the Bosnian Serb army during the war, is number two on the tribunal's most-wanted list after Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who remains at large.
The 63-year-old has been a fugitive since 1995 when the the United Nations Court in The Hague indicted him for war crimes and genocide.
Under an indictment last amended in October 2002, the UN war crimes tribunal charged Mladic with 15 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1992 and 1995.
In Sarajevo, people were sceptical about the news but hoped Mladic would be caught soon.
"I wish they would hand him over to the Srebrenica women. I know what they would do to him" one man said, referring to Mladic's alleged involvement in the Srebrenica massacre where up to eight thousand Muslim boys and men were killed.
But in Pale, where Mladic enjoys strong support, people defended him on Wednesday.
"I think they are chasing him for no reason. He is a hero for us and he is untouchable. I wish him a long life without being caught." one woman said.
If tried and convicted, Mladic faces life imprisonment, the tribunal's maximum punishment.
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