"Karadzic popped into Bijeljina for a couple of hours this summer. He briefly visited a Bijeljina church, then returned to Serbia which is his main refuge. I presume that the spot where he crossed the border must have been secured rather well, and that members of Srpska Police were brought onto the streets of Bijeljina to protect and not to arrest him. This trick was used by Srpska Police as an alibi against accusations by the international community that they are providing protection for Radovan Karadzic. I think that an identical scenario was adopted this time in the Bratunac area", claims our source.
By the way, the territory of Bratunac municipality is particularly suitable for getting Karadzic's entourage across from Serbia to Srpska and vice versa. A few kilometers away from Bratunac, at a place called Ljubovija, there is a border crossing controlled by the State Border Service. However, there are also a few illegal crossings, which lead in the direction of Uzice. Despite being densely forested and therefore rather inaccessible, these roads present no obstacle to Karadzic's powerful jeeps. The fact that Ljubovija is considered to be an area with a strong Chetnik following also works in favor of Karadzic's protectors. The border crossing at Amajlije, near Bijeljina, was also particularly suitable for a while for Karadzic's crossings, until it became public knowledge that this border crossing was also being used for illegal transfer of Russian and Moldavian women, smuggling of weapons and drugs.
"Srpska Police was once again up to its usual standards. You know by how much they missed this time? By some 110 kilometers. It is highly likely that Karadzic crossed over from Serbia to Srpska in the first half of March, but returned very quickly as he had done last summer. There is a saying which goes: the wolf is fed, the sheep are all accounted for. There will be more such interventions, but our police will never arrest Karadzic, because it does not want to", commented our source on the Bratunac operation.
At the command levels of the European Union Police Mission (EUPM), quite apart from the credibility or otherwise of this action, there appears to be great concern about the fact that alongside hundreds of Srpska Police officers, a mere three or four agents of the B-H state frontier service (DGS) were involved, even though the action took place in a DGS "zone of responsibility". Our sources close to the latter service's headquarters at Lukavica, meanwhile, stress the fact that they were deliberately marginalized, because in contrast to the Serb entity police force they have a multi-ethnic command structure. Nermin Mrkaljevic, chief of the DGS territorial office in Visegrad, which also controls the Zvornik and Bijeljina DGS units, is seen by the highest Serb centers of financial and political power [sic] as the most significant "stumbling block" in the way of the persistent attempt to make the eastern border of Bosnia-Hercegovina purely Serb. This daring professional has been subjected to numerous threats for some time now, as well as to pressures from the DGS command, where ultimate authority is wielded by the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) appointees Slavica Vukovic and Rado Dostanic, while (according to the same source) the Bosniak and Croat commanders - Nijaz Spahic, Enes Gacanin, Robert Peric and Mile Juric - represent marginalized observers.
According to information provided to Dani, Novi Sad, popularly and by no means accidentally referred to as "the Serb Athens", has already welcomed a few Hague fugitives - former chief of so-called Serbian Autonomous Region Krajina Stojan Zupljanin, general of the Sarajevo-Romanija corps Vinko Pandurevic, Ljubisa Borovcanin and others - and it is also possible that Karadzic occasionally hides in the Novi Sad region. Milenko Karisik, former commander of a special unit of Srpska Police, runs a private company in Novi Sad, while at one point the most powerful Pale special police force member Ilija Maletic owns a fitness centre in the "Vojvodina" Culture and Sports Complex.
Moreover, Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic's brother Milos Zelen lives in Subotica, pointing to the fact that this area of Serbian territory could be one of Karadzic's refuges. Allegedly, on the territory of Vojvodina alone, within a 50-kilometre diameter there are seven exceptionally well secured shelters kept for Karadzic.