Posted on 12/10/2005 12:05:25 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia 9 (Reuters) - The Bosnian Serb president urged top fugitives Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic on Friday to stop holding his region "hostage" and surrender for trial at the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague.
Serb Republic President Dragan Cavic issued the latest of many calls to the two men to end their decade-old flight from justice, two days after the capture in Spain of top Croatian war crimes fugitive Ante Gotovina, in hiding since 2001.
"I once again call on Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to surrender to The Hague tribunal," Cavic told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Banja Luka. "It needs to be understood that the institutions and the people of the Serb Republic have become hostages of this situation and it definitively has to end," Cavic said.
The two men's continued freedom hinders Bosnia and Serbia and Montenegro's progress towards closer ties with NATO and the European Union, a decade after the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war in which up to 200,000 people were killed.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic and his military commander Mladic have been charged with genocide over the siege of Sarajevo, in which more than 10,000 people were killed, and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.
Mladic is widely believed to be hiding in Serbia, protected by elements in its military, while Karadzic has been reported to be travelling between eastern Bosnia, his native Montenegro and Serbia.
Cavic said he doubted the pair were on the territory of the Serb Republic, which shares Bosnia with the Muslim-Croat federation, but added that did not relieve its authorities of an obligation to locate them.
"If they do not want to hand themselves in, I call on the Serb Republic Interior Ministry and all regional agencies to fulfil their international obligation and once and for all erase this topic from the agenda," Cavic said.
I just find it amusing that the usual list of Islamofascist useful idiots and Soros fluffers who usually go into fits about these two still having not been found as the primary reason for forcing to Bosnia Serbs to kneel haven't posted a single comment to this thread.
Conscience finally setting in, perhaps?
Yup, reuters is a little behind, the 200k number was debunked.
Yes, I know.
The thing is, is that the Western media keeps repeating that (200 or 250 thousand) number over and over again (e.g., the BBC).
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