(26 May 2011) SHOTLIST
Belgrade, Serbia - 26 May 2011
1. Belgrade street scenes, passers by and policemen in the street
2. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Belgrade resident, no name given:
"Generally I think this is good for Serbia because it will help the process of the integration of Serbia into the European Union and generally remove the burden from the shoulders of our citizens. So, I think it is a good thing."
3. Mid of street
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Belgrade resident, no name given:
"I think this is the biggest betrayal of Serbian people. They should let him go."
5. Mid of street, police
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Belgrade resident, no name given:
"Terrible. Simply that. We could have done something cleverer. Definitely. The man defended our people and you see how he ended."
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 26 May 2011
7. The Executive Government and Bosnian Government assembly buildings
8. Flags
9. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Almir Panjeta, Sarajevo resident:
"What this arrest proves is that Serbia was lying all along. They knew all along where he was and then announced when they would arrest him and they really arrested him then. They obviously needed this for some of their political goals and he is the subject of some political trade."
10. Street scenes
11. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Jasenko Matkovic, Sarajevo resident:
"He is one of the two key persons of the Bosnian war. Now that's it. I'm thrilled. I still don't know all the details."
12. Sarajevo's main street that was shot at by Serb snipers for almost three years. It was dubbed by foreign journalists "Sniper Alley"
STORYLINE
Residents of the Serbian capital Belgrade and Bosnian capital Sarajevo reacted on Thursday to the news of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide.
In Belgrade, one resident said Mladic's capture was positive because it helped Serbia in its goal of joining the European Union.
The arrest 16 years after Mladic was indicted could be a jolt for Serbia's lagging efforts to join the EU.
The country has been under intense pressure from the international community to catch Europe's most wanted war crimes suspect and the EU has insisted on his arrest as a condition for its membership bid.
For another Belgrade resident however, the arrest was described as "the biggest betrayal of Serbian people."
One man added "Terrible. Simply that. We could have done something cleverer. Definitely. The man defended our people and you see how he ended."
In Bosnian Sarajevo, residents rejoiced at news.
"He is one of the two key persons of the Bosnian war. Now that's it. I'm thrilled," said Jasenko Matkovic.
Resident Almir Panjeta said the arrest was proof "that Serbia was lying all along," accusing the country of knowing where the general was hiding all along.
"They obviously needed this for some of their political goals and he is the subject of some political trade," Panjeta added.
UN prosecutors have said they believed the suspect in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II was hiding in Serbia under the protection of hardliners who consider him a hero for his role in Bosnia's 1992-95 ethnic war.
Mladic will be extradited to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Serbian president Boris Tadic said.
He did not specify when, but said an extradition process was under way.
Justice officials say it will take at least a week before he is handed over.

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