General de Hoop Scheffer said. NATO members have agreed to keep the present number of troops in Kosovo because of the level of tension there, he said. Twenty people indicted for war crimes are still at large, including Bosnian Serb wartime civilian leader Radovan Karadzic, his army commander, General Ratko Mladic, and Croatian General Ante Gotovina. Karadzic and Mladic face two counts of genocide for the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, and for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo which killed around 12,000 citizens. Del Ponte has repeatedly said that Mladic is hiding in Serbia under the protection of sympathizers, though Belgrade denies it. Karadzic is believed to be somewhere in Bosnia or Montenegro. Gotovina is The Hague's third most wanted man, accused of ordering massacres of Croatian Serbs in 1995. Del Ponte said "there were strong indications" that Gotovina was protected by a support network, including "within state structures." --SP 2137 Local Time 1837 GMT
