Accused of atrocities during the Bosnian war of 1992-95, Mladic had been on the run for 16 years. He will be charged with the deaths of 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebenica in 1995.
Mladic was captured after Serbian security forces raided a relative's house in the village of Lazarevo, about 80 kilometres north of the capital. According to local reports, he did not resist arrest.
Mladic had lived freely in Belgrade, reportedly using another name, until the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.
Questioning by the Serbian court will resume on Friday, after stopping due to what Mladic's lawyer claimed was his client's poor health.
Relief for Srebenica after Mladic's arrest
The capture of Ratko Mladic has opened old wounds for some relatives of those killed in the massacre at Srebenica. Hatidza Mehmedovic lost a husband and two sons, and thinks Mladic could have been arrested sooner:
"We've been waiting for this news for almost 16 years. The people who arrested him knew where this butcher was hiding all this time. It's very sad that they knew where he was, but didn't want to arrest him."
Many family members of the Muslim men and boys killed in Srebenica in 1995 have died in the 16 years it has taken to detain Mladic.
Every July, bodies of massacre victims found are buried at the Srebenica Memorial cemetary. Last year on the 15 anniversary, 775 new graves were dug for the commemorative mass burial.
The systematic killings happened when the army of the breakaway Republika Srpska, under the command of Mladic, arrived in Srebenica, part of Bosnia Herzegovina and a supposed ‘safe area' under UN protection.
SOURCE: Euronews
