The two best known suspects are Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and his army commander, Mladic.
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It helps that Slobodan Milosevic has a brutal-sounding name, and that Radovan Karadzic is memorably hairy.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said they were captured on landing but were later kidnapped from a hospital.
Among them are Radovan Karadzic, the former president of the Bosnian Serbs, and Ratko Mladic, once their military chief.
The legal action by Mrs Karadzic is yet another embarrassment for Nato in its long-standing attempts to arrest Radovan Karadzic.
On March 1st Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, opened his defence at his war-crimes trial in The Hague.
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U.S. officials now hope that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic can convince Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic to sign a similar letter.
Not so Radovan Karadzic, the former president indicted for war crimes, and Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency.
The problem is, that doing so endangers a whole host of Nato operations ranging from hunting for Radovan Karadzic to stopping Albanian guerrillas infiltrating into Macedonia.
"Without Radovan Karadzic, this thing wouldn't have happened, " Holbrooke told CNN.
She also secured an exclusive interview with Radovan Karadic, the Bosnian Serb war criminal and made programmes from Moscow during the riots as Yeltsin stormed Parliament.
He was also investigating the murders of the head of uniformed police in Serbia, Radovan Stojicic-Badza, in 1997, and of federal Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic last February.
War Crime: Five Days in Hell investigated accusations of the systematic killing of Muslims in Bosnia at the hands of two men, General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested in 2008.
The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military chief, Ratko Mladic, were still at large at the end of her tenure, though Mr Karadzic has since been arrested.
Military commander Mladic and his political leader Radovan Karadzic are still on trial at the ICTY for overseeing Serb atrocities during the conflict, in which some 100, 000 people died.
Serbia's hopes of joining the EU were for many years frozen pending the capture of two of the Bosnian war's most high-profile war crimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
Breaking ranks with the Bosnian Serbs' wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, she had offered some real co-operation with the peace plan drawn up three years ago this week in Dayton, Ohio.
He also dropped a heavy hint now confirmed by Mrs Albright that America expects Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' ex-leader and indicted war criminal, to be brought to justice in The Hague.
Both Mladic and Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are charged with war crimes, and Milosevic says excluding them from a future government would make his role as Bosnian Serb representative extremely difficult.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic may soon step out of public office and not be seen or heard from again, sources close to Bosnia's civil peace coordinator Carl Bildt told CNN Sunday.
More important still, it might give him political cover to do the unthinkable: to order the arrest of the two big fish still at large, General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (if either is in Serbia).
Rayner said NATO forces were "seeking guidance" on apprehending suspected war criminals after criticism that the alliance had allowed Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic -- indicted twice by the tribunal -- to move freely around the country.
Both organisations will be involved in the apprehension of war criminals, believing that combined assets will make it easier to capture those still on the run, including the former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
But one issue he was unable to resolve and one which his successor will face is the continued freedom of the two former Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who have been indicted for war crimes.
One problem is that this process cannot be completed without the arrests of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leaders, who are still at large a decade after having been indicted by the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.
This, quite clearly, is not something that has escaped the judge - who is furious that despite Radovan Karadzic having been on the run for 13 years, the tribunal's bureaucracy has not properly updated the indictment against him until now.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- As pressure mounts for someone to save the faltering Bosnian peace process by arresting indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two continue to run 49 percent of Bosnia as an ethnic separatist state.
Moreover, she has made it clear that, in return for financial aid, she will implement the peace plan in a way in which her chief rival and predecessor, Radovan Karadzic, who continues to control the eastern half of the Serb Republic, will not.
This week a former president of Bosnia's Serb Republic, Biljana Plavsic, gave herself up to the tribunal the highest-ranking figure so far to come before Ms Del Ponte, who still has her sights on Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' war-time leader, and Ratko Mladic, their top general.
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