Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic arrested
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europ ... 96183.html

amrev360 wrote:Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic arrested
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europ ... 96183.html

Ratko Mladic....That name even sounds like the villain from a James Bond flick...

Van wrote:

amrev360 wrote:Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic arrested
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europ ... 96183.html

Ratko Mladic....That name even sounds like the villain from a James Bond flick...

Many names are derived from different words that have some meanings, or represent some human activity (Smith, Taylor, Peace...). His name is popular one in Serbia and it's derived from word WAR.

mvelimir wrote:

Van wrote:

amrev360 wrote:Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic arrested
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europ ... 96183.html

Ratko Mladic....That name even sounds like the villain from a James Bond flick...

Many names are derived from different words that have some meanings, or represent some human activity (Smith, Taylor, Peace...). His name is popular one in Serbia and it's derived from word WAR.

War...how appropriate!

I understand his son's name is Darko. Ratko and Darko.....you can't make this stuff up!!

Darko - the name comes from word "gift". Mladic had a daughter. She might have been older child so when son was born, then must felt as if they received a gift. Coincidentally, Mladic's daughter committed a suicide during the war in Bosnia. People say she did it because she couldn't live with the shame that he was her father. Apparently, her death didn't upset him greatly.

mvelimir wrote:Coincidentally, Mladic's daughter committed a suicide during the war in Bosnia. People say she did it because she couldn't live with the shame that he was her father. Apparently, her death didn't upset him greatly.

One news article said she shot herself with her father's favorite gun, a final act of revenge.

mvelimir wrote:Darko - the name comes from word "gift". Mladic had a daughter. She might have been older child so when son was born, then must felt as if they received a gift. Coincidentally, Mladic's daughter committed a suicide during the war in Bosnia. People say she did it because she couldn't live with the shame that he was her father. Apparently, her death didn't upset him greatly.

Wow....

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this subject with us, mvelimir! Very interesting...