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bodies in a mass grave that had been found in the forest
a few kilometres away. I also learned that the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
had issued an indictment from The Hague against
Nedelko Borojević years ago, but that he was still at large.
The court charged him with a commander’s responsibility
for the war crimes perpetrated in Višnjići. In the course of
my search, I also came across a number of theories about
where the runaway General Borojević might be hiding
within the vast territory of the Serbian Entity, and how
he, like many Hague defendants, was being protected by
members of Serbia’s secret intelligence service. In the
comments section below one article, someone claimed
that Borojević had been living in a fortified house in the
vicinity of Užice, southern Serbia, for years. Other
anonymous commentators upheld this theory, and added
that his protection was by direct order of the political elite
of Serbia, and was well-known among foreign intelligence
services, being the responsibility of the Serbian army.
I had last seen General Nedelko Borojević in the
restaurant of the Bristol Hotel in Belgrade, in the
summer of ’91, when he was still a colonel. Looking back
now, I guess I’d never really known this person who had
played the role of my father so well, during my childhood
in Pula. I had no doubt that I had loved him as any child
loves a father, and when my mother told me that he was
gone, I grieved. I sometimes indulged myself in the idea
that I had never really got over losing my father, and