JNN 28 May 2011 SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina —:  The 69-year-old general was arrested on Thursday in a relative’s house in a village in the northern province of Vojvodina, where he had been living under a pseudonym.

Bosniak Muslims expressed grim satisfaction Friday at Ratko Mladic’s arrest on genocide charges but there was little public celebration – a sharp contrast to scenes after the 2008 capture of close Mladic ally Radovan Karadzic.

Photos of Mladic as a stooped man in a baseball cap have come as a shock to this country of four million, where images of a vital commander in a military uniform striding up muddy hillsides are ingrained in many minds.

Many Muslims feel Mladic will die before spending significant time in jail on charges he orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 men and boys.

“Serbia got rid of an old man who can now legally get medical care with the best doctors and won’t say anything in the court,” said Sahin Music, 74, from the city of Tuzla. “Why would we celebrate that?

Three years ago, Sarajevans honked, sang chanted and called everyone they knew to break the news that Karadzic was arrested. Today, many Bosniak Muslims are disappointed by the lack of verdict in Karadzic’s ongoing trial.

“I am not that happy,” Sabaheta Fejzic, who lost her son and husband in the Srebrenica massacre. “I was disappointed so many times by the work of the Hague Tribunal.”

Mothers and widows of men killed at Srebrenica massacre said Mladic appeared old and frail but had the same bloodthirsty look they saw as his soldiers killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town.

The house, located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Belgrade in the village of Lazarevo, had been under surveillance by security forces for two weeks prior to the arrest.

Serbian President Boris Tadic said efforts were underway to send Mladic to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he will stand trial on war crime charges.

The women of the Sarajevo-based Mothers of Srebrenica association said Mladic’s shrunken appearance following his arrest is deceptive.

“He might have aged and lost weight but the bloodthirsty look in his eyes is the same as the one he had in Srebrenica in 1995,” said Sabra Kolenovic, who lost her husband and son. “He should be crossed out from the list of human beings,” she said.

The former Bosnian Serb army chief is widely believed responsible for the July 1995 massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.

The Srebrenica massacre was carried out by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) which were under his command at the time.