UN war crimes court president hopes Serb fugitives will be caught soon - Winnipeg Free Press

UN war crimes court president hopes Serb fugitives will be caught soon - Winnipeg Free Press: "head of the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia expressed hope Tuesday that the two Serb fugitives still at large will be caught before the court closes down and hands over its work to local courts in the Balkans.
But Judge Patrick Robinson said mechanisms will be kept in place to try Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic if they are not apprehended by the time the Hague-based tribunal has shut down.
'It is my hope that they will be apprehended soon and brought to the Hague for trial,' Robinson said.
Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, whose job is to find the fugitives, said their capture is in his country's interest. Vukcevic said that Serbia has faced 'political, moral and economic over these two men,' who are believed to be hiding here.
'We want them in the Hague as soon as possible,' he said.
Vukcevic spoke in a speech at the launch of an EU-funded project aimed at helping national judiciaries in the Balkan region deal with war crimes cases. The €4 million ($5.4 million) project is being carried out together with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the U.N. Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.
Robinson told reporters that the War Crimes Justice Project is key for achieving justice. He said the Hague tribunal will close in three to four years, but that 'the completion of its work, the tribunal's work, lies in the continuation of that work by national judiciaries.'
The purpose of the project, he said, 'is to deliver justice to those who have not received it and will not receive it from the tribunal.'"

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