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| Serbian security forces hunting the fugitive ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic are searching a factory in the west of the country. | |
| Armed agents are searching the plastics factory on the orders of Serbia's war crimes office, the BBC has been told. | Armed agents are searching the plastics factory on the orders of Serbia's war crimes office, the BBC has been told. |
| Ratko Mladic is wanted on genocide and crimes against humanity charges for his part in the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. | Ratko Mladic is wanted on genocide and crimes against humanity charges for his part in the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. |
| His boss, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, is already facing trial in The Hague. | |
| Serbia's war crimes office said the search was centred on a factory in the town of Valjevo. | |
| Local media reported that police were seen entering armed with machine-guns. | |
| Mr Mladic is wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague on numerous counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws of war in Bosnia-Hercegovina between April 1992 and July 1995. | |
| He is accused of leading the Serb onslaught against the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in 1995, which led to the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys. | |
| Speculation that he would soon be arrested has been mounting since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in July 2008. | |
| Mr Karadzic was found to have spent years living in Belgrade, in disguise and using a new name, practising alternative medicine. |