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.
Gotovina je bio jedan od tri najtraženija odbegla optuženika za ratne zločine iz balkanskih sukoba devedesetih, zajedno sa bivšim liderom bosanskih Srba Radovanom Karadžićem i njegovim vojnim komandantom Ratkom Mladićem.