EU and War Crimes. It’s a funny old game.
Time for a little politics for a change, dear Reader!
Yesterday, as widely reported, Stojan Zupljanin, the Bosnian lawyer charged with war crimes in the former Yugoslavian conflict of ’92 to ’95, was finally arrested after 13 years in hiding in Serbia.
Zupljanin’s arrest is a blatent attempt by Serbia to appease the Dutch and Belgian governments, who, yesterday re-announced their refusal to ratify a key accord for Serbia’s advancement towards the EU for non-cooperation over it’s fugitive war criminals.
Serbia’s gesture would carry much more weight had they given up Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic, or even Radovan Karadzic, who are all still at large, and indicted variously for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
However, that wouldn’t leave enough ‘big guns’ for the next crucial point in Serbia’s potential EU accession in autumn. I wonder when Hadzic, will be miraculously ‘found’?
That still leaves around four more years in Serbia’s EU accession process and three major fugitives from International justice. Mladic circa spring 2009?
As for Karadzic, you had better ask the United States’ Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.
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