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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...
...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...
...politicians from the region and beyond assemble in Srebrenica to mark the anniversary with the usual "never again" vows, one simple fact speaks louder than any of their words: General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader who was the chief architect of the war crime at Srebrenica, remains at large - presumed to be hiding in Serbia, under the protection of elements of the military and police who see him as a war hero. Unfortunately, millions of Serbs share this view, remaining in dogged denial over the deeds of the fugitive general and, even more importantly, over Serbia...
...truth that many Serbs continue to avoid is that Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian Serb warlords could have never have accomplished their ethnic cleansing campaigns, the brutal siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre, without troops and equipment from Serbia. Thousands of Serbian police and military officers, thinly disguised as "volunteers", were put on Mladic's disposal by former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, and they were more than willing executioners...
...denial. Political leaders, including President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, voiced their outrage, and several members of the Scorpions were arrested. Serbia's parliament prepared a declaration condemning the Srebrenica massacre, and for the first time, the government seemed sincere when it declared that Ratko Mladic would be tracked down and arrested before the Srebrenica commemoration...