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...This poisoned legacy lives on, despite Milosevic?s physical disappearance. The majority of Serbs still refuse to deal with the psychological and political consequences of the atrocities committed by Serbian Forces during the Balkan conflicts, but so do Croats, Bosnians and Kosovars when it comes to their own war crimes. It is always really someone else?s fault; it is some other ethnic group that has not properly and sufficiently faced up to its guilt. The distorted, extremely one-sided view on recent past prevails throughout the former Yugoslavia. Detoxification will be long and painful because no one wants...
...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...
...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...
...year-old general, who led Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 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...