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Mladic arrest sees one prayer finally answered for ‘The Angel of Mostar’

SALLY Becker, the woman known as the "The Angel of Mostar" for her rescue of hundreds of wounded children in war-ravaged Bosnia in the mid-1990s, often looks as though she has been traumatised herself.

Last week, when she heard of the capture of Ratko Mladic, the 69-year-old former Serbian commander accused of prosecuting the attack on Srebrenica in July 1995 and perpetrating the single biggest crime of the Bosnian war, she remembered Mira, one of his victims.