Serbia has announced that they now think they have Ratko Mladic in custody. The fact that they need DNA to be sure in itself illustrates the long period in which he has been at large. He was indicted already in 1995, that is 15 years ago. It was the year after the Olympic Games at Lillehammer; Bill Clinton had just barely got into stride in his first turn as president; John Major was prime minister in Britain; Jacques Chirac became president in France and started testing nukes in the Pacific; it was the year of the Oklahoma bombing; Christopher Reeve got thrown from a horse and was paralysed; OJ Simpson was found not guilty; and of course it is the year of the Srebrenica massacre, which is one of the major crimes Mladic presided over.
