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UN judges find 'Butcher of Bosnia' guilty of war crimes, genocide

A UN tribunal has sentenced former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic to life in prison after convicting him of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war.

Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, at his trial judgement at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Source: ICTY

Mladic, 74, was hustled out of the court minutes before the verdict for screaming "this is all lies, you are all liars" after returning from what his son described as a blood pressure test, which delayed the reading-out of the judgment.

The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found Mladic guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica and the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, in which more than 11,000 civilians were killed by shelling and sniper fire over 43 months.

 


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By Stergos Kastelloriou



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