The former general guilty of the Sebrenica genocide and the siege of Sarajevo
The Hague Tribunal today confirmed on appeal the life sentence for Ratko Mladic, the executioner of Srebrenica. The sentence is final, with no further possibility of appeals.
Rejecting the defense’s appeal, the judges in The Hague confirmed the accusations of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, reaffirming the life sentence for the former general. Mladic (78 years old) was present in the courtroom and followed the reading of the long device of the sentence with the headphones of the translation.
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In a dark jacket and blue tie, flanked by two security officers, the former general appeared in good condition, frowning and perplexed by all the confirmed charges against him. Mladic, the last excellent war criminal judged by international justice, was held responsible in particular for the Srebrenica genocide, where 8,000 Muslim Bosnians were massacred in July 1995, and for the long siege of Sarajevo during the 1992 armed conflict in Bosnia. -1995.