Swiss news reports from a Serbian newspaper article that Ratko Mladic, wanted for war crimes by the UN tribunal in The Hague, has been hiding in New Belgrade, a massive post-war Modernist housing project. This sprawling complex of brutalist architecture has popped into the global media stream as an echo of American hip-hop. The buildings are reportedly arranged as labyrinths with many exits. New Belgrade has that mix of functional architecture, urban poverty, pumped-up youth and alienation that makes it an export market for American ghetto culture. The police are said to be concentrating on apartments with high electricity use and no telephone traffic. Serbian commentators characterize Mladic as likely to commit suicide rather than be taken alive. He apparently has cut himself off from all contact with the outside world and receives visits from one partisan only.
Youtube has lots of home-made video clips of New Belgrade graffiti, such as the following--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7FRlZN_yg
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