Trial Reveals How Serbian Fugitive Hid
After 11 years, the hunt for Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic may well be the most frustrating, infuriating and fruitless around.
The two, wanted for the most heinous crimes of Bosnia’s bloody civil war from 1992 to 1995, have managed to elude thousands of Western peacekeepers and local police forces with what is widely suspected to be the collusion of the Serbian military. Reality and myth have grown indistinguishable as stories have emerged of their possible hide-outs and of the failed attempts to track them down.
Now, for the first time, clear — even mundane — details of how General Mladic has managed to dodge arrest are emerging bit by bit in a Belgrade courtroom.
Until January this year, the general, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, was living in the Serbian capital protected by a network of former comrades in arms, according to testimony given during the trial of 11 people accused of helping to hide him.
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The two, wanted for the most heinous crimes of Bosnia’s bloody civil war from 1992 to 1995, have managed to elude thousands of Western peacekeepers and local police forces with what is widely suspected to be the collusion of the Serbian military. Reality and myth have grown indistinguishable as stories have emerged of their possible hide-outs and of the failed attempts to track them down.
Now, for the first time, clear — even mundane — details of how General Mladic has managed to dodge arrest are emerging bit by bit in a Belgrade courtroom.
Until January this year, the general, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, was living in the Serbian capital protected by a network of former comrades in arms, according to testimony given during the trial of 11 people accused of helping to hide him.