Serbia searches for fugitive general

Serbia's police say they have launched a major search for war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic in a western Serbian town.

The office of Serbia's police minister says the search is being conducted Monday in the region of the town of Valjevo under orders from Serbia's war crimes prosecutors.

Mladic, the wartime Bosnian Serb military commander, has been on the run since he was indicted in 1995 for genocide by the U.N. war crimes court for former Yugoslavia on charges that he has masterminded the slaughter of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, and an armed siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.