The gripping untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia and how the perpetrators of Balkan war crimes were
captured by the most successful manhunt in history.
Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail
chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted
by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - both now on trial in The Hague -
were finally tracked down and describes the intrigue behind the arrest
of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head
of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes
perpetrated in a time of war.
Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence
officials, and investigators from a dozen countries - most speaking
about their involvement for the first time - this book reconstructs a
14-year manhunt carried out almost entirely in secret. Indicting the
worst war criminals that Europe had known since the Nazi era, the ICTY
ultimately accounted for all 161 suspects on its wanted list, a feat
never before achieved in political and military history.