globeandmail.com: Serbia - Fugitives blocking Serbia's path to EU - by Doug Sanders
Serbia - Fugitives blocking Serbia's path to EU - by Doug Sanders
The two aging, angry men are probably the most wanted fugitives in the world. And yesterday, it became clear that Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, missing for almost 12 years, have also become the biggest impediments to the integration of Europe. They may be hiding in plain sight in a circle of hilly villages in southern Bosnia. Or they could be here in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, kept behind shuttered windows on the edge of town by their many loyal supporters. Whatever the case, United Nations war-crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the European Union parliament in an angry, final statement yesterday that a decade-long search by the governments of Serbia and Bosnia has failed to produce either Mr. Karadzic or his deputy, General Mladic, even though she is certain that both are living comfortably in the Balkans, with Gen. Mladic "definitely" in Serbia.
