Center for Balkan Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With Gotovina's arrest, CBD calls on Bosnia and Serbia to arrest Karadzic and Mladic before end of year
December 8, 2005
CBD applauds the joint Croatian/Spanish operation to capture Ante Gotovina, the Croatian General indicted in 1995 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for alleged war crimes committed against Croatian Serbs during the bloody wars of Yugoslav dissolution. Spain's cooperation in arresting Gotovina, and the subsequent outpouring of statements from European capitals, confirms that the international community strongly supports delivering justice to indicted war criminals and to their victims.
With the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Accords in Paris on December 14, CBD calls on NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, High Representative Paddy Ashdown, and Bosnian and Serb political and military leaders to augment operations to arrest and transfer to The Hague outstanding war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. CBD also calls on the Bush Administration to provide intelligence and logistical support to aid these operations.
Serbian President Boris Tadic has denied knowledge of Karadzic and Mladic's whereabouts, as have U.S. officials in a private meeting with CBD last month in Washington, D.C. As a former Serbian defense minister, and with strong ties to the Serbian intelligence community, it is unfathomable that President Tadic does not know, or cannot learn, where Mladic is hiding.
The carrot of European Union (EU) accession talks combined with the stick of the remaining peacekeeping troops in Bosnia can still be leveraged to arrest these indicted war criminals. EU pressure clearly impacted today's arrest of Gotovina, as Croatia was warned that its bid for EU membership depended on its cooperation in apprehending him.
Unfortunately, the arrest yesterday also highlights the fact that the major war criminals, Gotovina, Karadzic, and Mladic, still maintain strong support from nationalists in their home countries. Rather than deterring the arrests of outstanding criminals, this nationalistic support should be seen as another reason why arresting these men is important: to discredit and destroy the influence that nationalists have on the economic and social development of the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
The reactionary influence of nationalists continues to be the greatest obstacle for the further development in the region. The western Balkan states have a long way to go before they enjoy similar economic and social standards as their western European neighbors. Balkan political leaders are well aware that EU membership is crucial to achieving improved standards of living.
CBD strongly believes that the arrests and prosecutions of Gotovina, Karadzic, and Mladic will send a strong and clear signal to average citizens throughout the region that the ultra nationalist policies of the 1990s are finally over and that the future of the region lie in economic and political cooperation among friendly neighbors.
With three weeks left before the end of the year-the year that Carla Del Ponte stated would see the arrests of Karadzic and Mladic-CBD hopes that the international community and the U.S. government understand what is at stake. The Bush Administration, international organizations, The Hague, and the governments of Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina should not forgo this historic opportunity to finally bring to justice to architects of genocide in Bosnia and move forward into a future based on cooperation and justice.
For more information: http://www.balkandevelopment.org/timeforjustice
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