“Big reward won’t help arrest Mladić”

Analysts doubt that a decision to increase reward for reliable information about two remaining Hague fugitives’ whereabouts will yield results. Analyst Aleksandar Radic has assessed that the government is trying to do what it can but that it is security system’s job to locate the Hague indictees. “Big reward won’t help arrest Mladic” “The job is not naive at all and only one segment in the story is possible expectation that somebody from Ratko Mladic’s surroundings or somebody who, let’s imagine, has direct information, could help the investigation,” he stressed. He thinks that increase in the reward itself does not mean much because the money has been offered before and it did not give results, but that it should show the EU “that they mean business”. Radic stressed that he did not mean that the move was bad but that it should not be overestimated. Military analyst Bojan Dimitrijevic has assessed that it is “basically the government’s wish to show that it has no knowledge and that every information from the outside is welcome” but “that the investigation has exhausted the leads and that there is no knew knowledge”. Pointing out that the government’s decision is an indicator that the state authorities have exhausted all regular means to look for Mladic and that this way they want to show that it is possible to use other means to conduct the investigation – by increasing the reward, Dimitrijevic says that “people who have some knowledge probably do not want to share it with the government”. Military-political commentator Ljubodrag Stojadinovic thinks that the government’s decision to increase the reward is “meaningless in every aspect” because “it cannot and will not increase government’s operational ability to complete the job in any way”. The government’s decision “represents a cover for inability of a group of people who are in that sense the most responsible for not finishing the job,” he said and added that he primarily had in mind War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic and people who were supposed to help. Professor at the Faculty of Security Studies Zoran Dragisic points out that the decision represents a “cheap marketing trick to show the world that it is doing something, that it is trying to arrest Mladic.” “Of course that the increased reward won’t make arrest of Mladic easier in any way, but I think that in a word it’s a very cheap marketing trick,” he concluded.

“Big reward won’t help arrest Mladić”

“The job is not naive at all and only one segment in the story is possible expectation that somebody from Ratko Mladić’s surroundings or somebody who, let’s imagine, has direct information, could help the investigation,” he stressed.

He thinks that increase in the reward itself does not mean much because the money has been offered before and it did not give results, but that it should show the EU “that they mean business”.

Radić stressed that he did not mean that the move was bad but that it should not be overestimated.

Military analyst Bojan Dimitrijević has assessed that it is “basically the government’s wish to show that it has no knowledge and that every information from the outside is welcome” but “that the investigation has exhausted the leads and that there is no knew knowledge”.

Pointing out that the government’s decision is an indicator that the state authorities have exhausted all regular means to look for Mladić and that this way they want to show that it is possible to use other means to conduct the investigation – by increasing the reward, Dimitrijević says that “people who have some knowledge probably do not want to share it with the government”.

Military-political commentator Ljubodrag Stojadinović thinks that the government’s decision to increase the reward is “meaningless in every aspect” because “it cannot and will not increase government’s operational ability to complete the job in any way”.

The government’s decision “represents a cover for inability of a group of people who are in that sense the most responsible for not finishing the job,” he said and added that he primarily had in mind War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević and people who were supposed to help.

Professor at the Faculty of Security Studies Zoran Dragišić points out that the decision represents a “cheap marketing trick to show the world that it is doing something, that it is trying to arrest Mladić.”

“Of course that the increased reward won’t make arrest of Mladić easier in any way, but I think that in a word it’s a very cheap marketing trick,” he concluded.