Mladic a no-show | Belgrade keeps quiet on Kosovo demands

I can't help but feel there's a correlation between simultaneous stories today regarding the failure to apprehend Mladic as the final offering of Serb ICTY quasi-repentance and the reluctance of Belgrade's Kosovo negotiation team to offer their "demands" before the May 4th talks resume. Its possible the Kosovo negotiaion team would be hesitant to show their cards before the next face-off regardless, but they are smart to not augment the worldwide censure against Serbia right now for failing to meet the Mladic deadline.



Ratko and Radovan - thank you Serbia may we have another?

Its really a shame that Belgrade didn't get Mladic in time. Its even more of a shame the way the ICTY has been administered on Serbia as a quasi-forced rehabilitation that has elicited social and political responses in Serbia that are so contrary to the ICTY's purposes. It is in this regard that I am most critical of the ICTY, because what it was supposed to do for Serbia is so important. Instead, the ICTY is just devolved into some shriveled, distorted bastardization of what it was initially designed to be, and yet it is still one of the only real tools in the EU's toolbox that gets anything done. Either that or they just like to wave it around and pretend that they're fixing things.

For an excellent commentary on the ills and woes of the ICTY, check out this article by Iagor Rangelov of the London School of Economics.

tagged under balkans,mladic, ICTY