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| A former Bosnian Serb general and close aide to top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has been arrested, reports say. | A former Bosnian Serb general and close aide to top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has been arrested, reports say. |
| Zdravko Tolimir is one of the top fugitives sought by the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague for his alleged role in the Srebrenica massacre. | |
| Belgrade-based broadcaster B-92 reported his arrest. It did not say where he had been captured. | Belgrade-based broadcaster B-92 reported his arrest. It did not say where he had been captured. |
| General Ratko Mladic has evaded arrest for years. He is wanted for war crimes against Muslim civilians in the 1990s. | |
| Up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica in 1995. | |
| Gen Mladic and his political boss Radovan Karadzic have been indicted for genocide over these killings and the 43-month siege of Sarajevo, which claimed over 10,000 lives. | |
| Zdravko Tolimir is suspected of being part of the network that has helped Ratko Mladic to escape capture. |