March 15, 2004
At large
The BBC reports that yet another Karadzic search ends in failure. This is no surprise but time is getting short. Serbia has to produce Karadzic until the end of this month or all international aid will dry up instantly (which is to say, no new projects will begin after March 31 -- those which are running will continue to do so.)
Personally, I think he's in Belgrade. Hint for those searchers: Look on Golsvortijeva. We've lived around the corner from presidents and prime ministers all the time since we came to the Balkans. Golsvortijeva was the only exception. I've always wondered whether that meant that there is someone important living around the corner that we just don't know about.
I don't know. It seems as good a guess as any...
Posted by claudia at March 15, 2004 09:01 AMI think it is unfair.
Why should serbians suffer because the police can't find Karadzic?
Are americans better? Did somebody said they'll do something to US if they don't find that terrorist?
There's a belief that the Serbian government has been tolerating some war criminals, if not actually helping them hide.
(Note that not one but two parties in Serbia's Parliament are headed by accused war criminals.)
It's complicated. I don't really agree with what the US is doing here. And I think it has had some bad results. On the other hand, I'm not wild about letting the war criminals have a nice peaceful retirement, either.
Maybe we'll do a post on this sometime.
Doug M.
Posted by: Doug Muir at March 15, 2004 02:10 PM