(8 Jun 2021) Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will hear Tuesday if UN judges have upheld or overturned his convictions and life sentence for masterminding genocide and other atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for leading troops responsible for a string of deadly campaigns including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo, was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Residents of Sarajevo on Tuesday said he deserved a life sentence and even the death penalty for his crimes.
The verdicts in the appeal case will all but wrap up U.N. prosecutions of crimes committed in the war that killed more than 100,000 and left millions homeless.
Mladic was found guilty of genocide for leading the 1995 massacre in the eastern enclave of Srebrenica of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
It was the worst massacre on European soil since World War II. Widows and mothers of victims will be in court to hear the judgment by a five-judge panel led by Zambian Presiding Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe.
Mladic also was found guilty of other crimes including persecution, extermination, murder and terror.
He was acquitted of a second genocide charge linked to a campaigns to drive non-Serbs out of several towns early in the war. Prosecutors appealed that acquittal.
Mladic's former political leader, Radovan Karadzic, also was convicted of the same crimes and is serving a life sentence.
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