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That makes it even more crucial to bring to trial the two most wanted remaining fugitives, Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Along with Milosevic, both were indicted by the war-crimes court for their role in the infamous 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and are widely believed to be in hiding in Serbia, although the Serbian government denies harboring them. Observers say only intense international pressure will persuade Belgrade to cooperate. Serbia's desire to eventually join the European Union might also give it an incentive to rid itself of the pair...
...news that Mladic was captured and flown to the Netherlands via a US Air Force base in Bosnia was first launched on Tuesday afternoon by a folksy local television station in the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina. Soon it was picked up by several media outlets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and then by major international news agencies and cable television news. The ensuing media frenzy lasted for days despite strong denials of the Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic...
...latest brouhaha further embarrassed the Serbian government, which accused the opposition of launching the misinformation campaign, thus undermining their honest efforts to catch the general. But the opposition, and some Western observers, blame the government. "They raised this noise to hide the fact that they are not truly hunting Mladic", a Belgrade-based Western diplomat told Time. "So far, we are not impressed by their efforts...
...What has Mladic been up to all these years...
...Bosnian war, was retired in 1996 and lived quite openly in Belgrade despite an international warrant for his arrest. He was protected by Slobodan Milosevic, the long-time Serbian president who was himself indicted for war crimes in Bosnia and Kosovo. After Milosevic's downfall in 2000, Mladic went underground, although he was reportedly seen at several remote locations in Serbia. Since 2000. Serbian authorities insisted that they had no idea about Mladic's whereabouts, even though they continued to send his pension checks to his family, who still lives in Belgrade. So it was quite an embarrassment last week...