The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, known as the “Srebrenica killer”. The sentence cannot be appealed further and is final. Dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia”, the once burly general who is now in
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ratko Mladic was dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” for terrorising the capital Sarajevo with a 43-month siege and presiding over the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area”, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two. The Srebrenica slaughter was the grisly culmination of a 3-1/2-year war in which
War crimes judges on Tuesday upheld the genocide conviction of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. The UN tribunal in The Hague rejected Mladic's appeal against his 2017 life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over the 1992-5
Reading Time: 2 minutes War crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic. In 2017, the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia jailed Mladic for life on charges including terrorizing Sarajevo’s civilian population during the siege, and
Photo: 8,000 men and boys lost their lives in the Srebrenica massacre UN judges will rule today on Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his genocide conviction for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst act of bloodshed since World War II. The Hague tribunal will be delivering its final verdict on the so-called “Butcher of