this tribunal under its security council mandate. zain. >> cnn's phil black reporting from the hague. thanks a lot, phil. ratko mladic has been on the run for years. we just want to remind you of a little more context here. in 1992 he laid serge to sarajevo. that siege lasted nearly four years and left thousands dead. and then srebrenica. in 1995 he was allegedly involved in the massacre of almost 8,000 muslim men and boys in and around the town. and then on july the 24th of that year, mladic and 51 others were indicted by the u.n.-established international tribunal for the former yugoslavia. now, there were a lot of rewards out for his capture or any information. in 2007, serbian officials offered $1.5 million for any information that led to his capture. they raised that to $14 million. that was in 2010.