For Srebrenica survivors arrest came too late
The arrest of Ratko Mladic came late for survivors of the Srebrenica massacre where forces under his command committed the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
"This arrest does not make me happy at all," Hatidza Mehmedovic, a Muslim whose two sons and husband were killed in the July 1995 massacre, told AFP.
"It is only a drop of justice".
In the yard in front of her house in Srebrenica, where she returned nine years ago, Mehmedovic looks at a fir that her younger son Almir had planted just before he was brutally killed by Mladic's troops, at the age of just 17.
So far, some 4,500 massacre victims have been buried at the Potocari memorial.
Mehmedovic goes there almost every day.
Mehmedovic remembered Mladic's arrival in Potocari, on July 11, 1995, where tens of thousands of people gathered in a UN military base hoping they would be rescued with the peacekeepers.
"Only one meter and a ribbon separated us. He had a megaphone and he told us, in front television cameras, 'Don't be afraid, all of you will be transferred'," she said.
"Once the cameras were turned off, they started to separate men from women."
Fahreta Dudic's three brothers were killed in the massacre. "No sentence could bring them back," she said.
"I feel no satisfaction at all. Our souls are empty," she added, in tears.
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