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General Ratko Mladic, one of world's most wanted fugitives, was arrested this week in Serbia after succesfully evading justice for more than ten years. Unfortunately for Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Mladic's arrest happened only in news flashes and newspaper headlines around the world. In real life, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army indicted for reckless bombardment of Sarajevo and the slaughter of at least 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, remains as elusive as ever - despite mounting pressure on the Serbian government to deliver...
...would the arrest be such a big deal...
...past several months, the failure to arrest Mladic has been a source of growing headaches for Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and his government. Serbia is scheduled to start talks about joining the European Union in early April, but Brussels has already told Belgrade that the talks will be suspended, probably for a very long period, unless the general is apprehended within the next two or three weeks. Also, the failure to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal is likely to complicate negotiations over the future status of Kosovo, which opened last week in Vienna. Serbia desperately wants to keep some...
...rumor of the high-profile arrest get started...
Yale history professor Paul M. Kennedy was arrested Feb. 2 after allegedly hitting a student with his car and faces five charges, including driving under the influence of a controlled substance, according to the professor’s lawyer. Gregory J. Pepe, the defendant’s lawyer, said that the professor is innocent and that he is sure all charges will be dropped at Kennedy’s March 7 hearing. Kennedy was not drunk at the time of the incident and the arrest was due to the police officer’s misconstruing Kennedy’s physical...