The International Criminal Tribunal in Hague (Netherlands) has sentenced Ratko Mladic (the 74 year old former Bosnia Serb military commander) to life imprisonment on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 for the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo in 1990s Bosnia war. According to Alphons Orie (the presiding Judge), Ratko Mladic is guilty of crimes including extermination, persecution and murder in Bosnia. Our correspondent gathered that during Bosnia war, about 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered at Srebrenica. Also over 11,000 civilians were killed by shelling and sniper fire in Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia). After the war in 1995, Ratko Mladic went into hiding and was arrested in 2011 in rural northern Serbia. He had been on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 2012. Mladic was not in court when the sentence was read out, he was sent out for shouting at the judges. Ratko Mladic pleaded not guilty to all the charges and his lawyer said he will appeal against his conviction.
Source: Viewers Corner News.