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Serbia may send former Bosnia Serb military leader Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within the next 24 hours, a justice official said on Tuesday.

"It will happen within the next 24 hours, as soon as the appeal arrives to the court and that is expected today," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He declined to give more details of the extradition plans.

"The panel of three will swiftly decide on the appeal, they will almost certainly reject it, the justice minister will sign extradition papers and off he goes," he said.

The International Criminal Tribunal indicted Mladic for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.

Serb security agents found the fugitive general last week after 16 years on the run.

Court officials and police allowed Mladic an hour-long visit to his daughter Ana's grave in a graveyard on the outskirts of Belgrade, the official said. A motorcade of armored jeeps brought Mladic back to his prison cell.

Ana Mladic committed suicide in 1994, and before he went underground in the early 2000s the general was frequently seen visiting her grave.

Mladic's lawyers say the 69-year-old, who was captured alone in a farmhouse, is mentally unstable and too sick to be extradited to the tribunal.

Mladic's son and grandchildren, who live in Belgrade, visited him in prison on Monday.

Questions:

1. When may Serbia send Mladic to the Hague?

2. How many Muslims is he accused of killing?

3. When was the Bosnian war?

Answers:

1. 24 hrs.

2. 8,000.

3. 1992-95.

（中国日报网英语点津 Helen 编辑）

Todd Balazovic is a reporter for the Metro Section of China Daily. Born in Mineapolis Minnesota in the US, he graduated from Central Michigan University and has worked for the China Daily for one year.