Special correspondent Allan Little has recalled meeting Ratko Mladić during the early months of the Bosnian war, describing the encounter as one with a dangerously fanatical figure.
Mladić is identified in the account by the notorious epithet “Butcher of Bosnia”. The meeting took place at an early stage of the conflict, when Little was reporting on events as the war was beginning to unfold.
The material supplied gives only limited detail about the circumstances of the encounter, including no precise date, location or direct quotation from the meeting. It does, however, make clear that Little regarded Mladić as a highly extreme presence even in the opening phase of the war.
The recollection is significant because it links a journalist’s early first-hand impression of Mladić with the reputation by which he later became widely known in coverage of the Bosnian conflict. No further response from Mladić or additional official comment is included in the supplied material.
The latest available information from the account is that Little has revisited the meeting as part of his reporting on the early period of the Bosnian war. Further details of the encounter are not provided in the source material supplied to BritainPost.
