Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic was tried for genocide and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to 10 different crimes, especially the Srebrenica genocide, and sentenced to life imprisonment. So who is Ratro Mladic, nicknamed "The Butcher of Bosnia"?
He played a leading role in the massacre of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims during the Bosnian War.
He became known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" because of his massacres.
Troops under Mladic attacked Srebrenica in 1995.
Between 1992 and 1995, he led the Serbian soldiers during the war in Bosnia.
On 11 July 1995, he captured Srebrenica with Serbian soldiers under his command.
What Mladic said that day was almost a harbinger of things to come.
Saying that they gifted Srebrenica to the Serbian nation on the eve of the Serbian holiday, Mladic said, "Finally, it's time to take revenge on the Turks in this land."
Lived on the run for 15 years
The Butcher of Bosnia disappeared after the war. It was stored for about 15 years. He was captured in Serbia on May 26, 2011.
On May 16, 2012, his trial began for genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws of war.
The trial process was concluded in 2017.
Convicted of 10 different crimes, Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Details of the trial
Ratko Mladic began trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2012 for committing war crimes during the years he commanded Bosnian Serb soldiers fighting against Bosniaks and Croats.
In 2017, the court sentenced Mladic to life in prison for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and for "largely contributing" to the Srebrenica genocide in which more than 8,000 men were killed.
The Serbian general was acquitted of genocides committed in other regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Prosecutors appealed for Mladic to be sentenced for these crimes as well.
Mladic was again acquitted of genocide charges in settlements outside of Srebrenica.
However, his appeal regarding the 10 crimes he was previously guilty of was rejected by the appeals court. The court found the verdict on the other cases in which Mladic was found guilty.
The former Serbian general claimed that he did not order ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that the soldiers acted on their own initiative. However, the court ruled that this was not true.
September 10, 2022
Ratko Mladic, the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, who was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and war crimes, has been hospitalized. It was stated that Mladic, nicknamed 'The Butcher of Bosnia', was treated at the prison hospital in The Hague due to lung inflammation and heart complaints.
Ratko Mladic Loses Final Appeal in Genocide Conviction
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