Gotovina je bio jedan od trojice najtraženijih bjegunaca za ratne zločine iz balkanskih sukoba iz perioda 1990-tih godina, zajedno s bivšim liderom bosanskih Srba Radovanom Karadžićem i njegovim vojnim komandantom Ratkom Mladićem.
Gotovina was one of the three most wanted war crimes fugitives from the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s, along with former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, Ratko Mladic.