“They went running around to jewelry stores, banks, and well-stocked super-markets. There is not a single hill that they kept or liberated. On the other hand, the soldiers and officers in the army lead modest lives.”

—  Ratko Mladić

Commenting on war profiteers in interview with Robert Block, 1995
Interviews (1993 – 1995)

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