Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal
Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle Tuesday when U.N. judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence.
The ruling involving his 2017 convictions and sentence closed a grim chapter in European history that included the continent’s first genocide since World War II — the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
The now-frail Mladic, 78, was often belligerent at his court appearances in The Hague.
He showed no reaction other than a scowl as Presiding Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe of Zambia said the panel had dismissed, by a vote of 4-1, his appeals of convictions for crimes including genocide, murder, extermination and terror for atrocities throughout the war that killed more than 100,000 and left millions homeless.
At: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-ratko-mladic-europe-government-and-politics-4d2b4bc207af6ad523fea76ca7a14b3b
The “Butcher of Bosnia,” Ratko Mladic, sits in the court room in The Hague, Netherlands, as the United Nations court delivered its verdict today.
Mladic's appeal against his convictions for genocide and other crimes and his life sentence for masterminding atrocities throughout the Bosnian war, failed.
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