10yrs on the run they have not got them?

[Hellfighter]

Ten years on the run for Bosnian war crimes fugitives

Sunday, July 24, 2005; Posted: 5:55 p.m. EDT (21:55 GMT)



BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) (above right) -- Ten years after a U.N. tribunal indicted Radovan Karadzic (above left) and Ratko Mladic for the worst bloodshed since World War II, the two most wanted war crimes fugitives remain free.

The two indicted masterminds of the brutal Bosnian Serb offensives against rival Bosnian Muslims remain at large despite an international outcry for their capture and $5 million per head promised by the United States for information leading to their extradition to the U.N. tribunal.

Karadzic and Mladic have evaded justice since they were indicted by the Netherlands-based tribunal on July 25, 1995 -- frustrating international officials and U.N. war crimes prosecutors who want them captured and tried.

The two men top the U.N. tribunal's wanted list, and stand accused of numerous war crimes, including genocide in the July 1995 slaughter of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the U.N.-protected Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II.

Top Serbian and Bosnian officials and Western diplomats have told The Associated Press that Karadzic and Mladic are relying on disguises, hideouts and a shadowy network of supporters to remain free.

U.N. war crimes prosecutors believe Karadzic is hiding in the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia, while Mladic was last seen in neighboring Serbia. Both often cross from one Balkan state to another, frequently using the mountainous border area -- and popularity they still enjoy among nationalist Serbs -- to evade capture, the prosecutors say.

Those who have seen Karadzic say he has shaved off his trademark bushy hair, has grown a large beard and dresses in black robes like a Serbian Orthodox priest. He often changes his hideouts, Western officials say.

The commander of European Union's peacekeepers in Bosnia, British Maj. Gen. David Leakey, earlier this month said "the net is closing in." But U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the 1995 Bosnian peace agreement, dismissed this claim.

"Nets are for fishing expeditions. You don't capture war criminals whether it is Osama bin Laden, Radovan Karadzic or Saddam Hussein by going fishing," Holbrooke recently told the AP.

In the past, Karadzic traveled in ambulances with flashing lights to zip through NATO checkpoints undetected. Now, he travels only at night and avoids main roads, using forest paths through rugged Bosnian mountains, Western diplomats said.

His associates say Karadzic has often slipped into Pale, the Bosnian Serb wartime capital, for nighttime visits to his wife, Ljiljana.

Mrs. Karadzic said last week that she met him once briefly in 2001 in a visit apparently organized at a secret location by his security.

"I received a message, I saw him for an hour and left," Mrs. Karadzic said, adding that she did not know the location of their meeting.

"It's better that we don't know because we would be the weakest link. They (NATO, EU troops) know that we don't know because they follow us all the time. We have also found various listening and tracking devices on our cars."

Mladic, who is accused of leading the Srebrenica slaughter, lived freely in Serbia's capital Belgrade until 2002, showing up openly at soccer stadiums, dining in plush Belgrade restaurants and attending his son's wedding.

When, under Western pressure, Serbia's new pro-democracy authorities signaled that they might have to hand Mladic over to the tribunal, he disappeared from public view. The U.N. war crimes prosecutors have accused the Serbian military of sheltering Mladic.

Serbia is under relentless Western pressure to arrest Mladic. But its conservative leadership has been reluctant to act, fearing a backlash from an electorate which considers the tribunal anti-Serb and still rates Mladic and Karadzic their national heroes.

U.N. war crimes prosecutors are furious.

"We are not interested in any negotiations" with Mladic or Karadzic, said Florence Hartmann, the spokeswoman for chief U.N. prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. "There should be no compromise over their capture and extradition."

"What we have here are indictments for the slaughter of thousands."

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html

gee search for them in france's there they will find them hinding with the swampy frogs

[katana*GFR*]

There still hiding in former Yugoslavia..
They had the chance to arrest them both so many times.... And not the regular army that came to arrest... they make to much noise..
SpecOps have been in te position to capture them both multiple times. But they didnt got the go, to go in and arrest them.. Thats how European Politics work... We set it up very good, and then the politics kill it.

[BADDOG]

Originally posted by katana*GFR*
There still hiding in former Yugoslavia..
They had the chance to arrest them both so many times.... And not the regular army that came to arrest... they make to much noise..
SpecOps have been in te position to capture them both multiple times. But they didnt got the go, to go in and arrest them.. Thats how European Politics work... We set it up very good, and then the politics kill it.

That's a pretty fair assessment of politics bro....unfortunately!!!!

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