serbian authorities arrested ratko mladic thursday. they reportedly caught up with him in lazarevo, a village near the northern down of zrenjanin. mladic was a bosnian serb general during the balkan wars of the 1990s and the highest ranking yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large. he is wanted for genocide, extermination, and murder, and is accused of masterminding the 1995 massacre at srebrenica. >> general mladic has a very heavy responsibility for what was a tragedy in bosnia-herzegovina for many years, but particularly for the massacre of over 8,000 muslim males, which is already being judged to be a genocide. >> reporter: the capture was praised internationally as a victory for the rule of law in serbia. >> the arrest of ratko mladic is