The Hague’s Last Yugoslavian Fugitive Gets Nabbed

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Last week when I was talking to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, he said, “Guess how many fugitives ICTY has?” ICTY is what cool people call the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. “ICTY has 161 indicted criminals. Guess how many of them are fugitives.” I didn’t know. “One! It took a long time, but there is one remaining fugitive.”

Well, not anymore.