By Tom Hundley and Christine Spolar | Chicago Tribune reporters Over the past decade, as borders and barriers across an increasingly integrated Europe seemingly fell with each passing day, new ones were being constructed around Serbia. Most Serbs chafed under their deepening isolation, but a sense of national martyrdom and the refusal to turn over two indicted war criminals converged to keep Serbia on Europe's doorstep, a festering trouble spot for the continent. The European Union made clear that impoverished Serbia would be kept in penury as long as its government refused to make a serious effort to arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, the men accused of authorizing the executions of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But with the...
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