Zakharova: Mladic Sentence is Part of Ongoing Politicized and Biased Work of Tribunal
On June 8, the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal will deliver a final verdict in the trial against the wartime commander of Republika Srpska (RS) Army, Ratko Mladic, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity against non-Serbs during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The first-instance verdict has been appealed by both, Mladic’s defense and the prosecution. Mladic’s lawyers demanded an acquittal or a retrial, arguing that the general’s guilt was not proven.
The prosecutors demanded that the first-instance counts of which Mladic had been found guilty be upheld and that the Appeals Chamber declare the general guilty also of genocide against the Muslims and Croats in five municipalities in Bosnia, of which he had been acquitted in the first-instance ruling.
It is uncertain whether Mladic will be present in courtroom to hear the final judgment.
The Appeals Chambers is presided by Judge Prisca Nyambe from Zambia. The session is scheduled to start at 3 pm CET and will be streamed live with a 30-minute delay on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals website.
Mladic has been detained in Scheveningen since May 31, 2011. He was arrested by the Serbian authorities on May 26, 2011, in the village of Lazarevo, near Zrenjanin and handed over to the ICTY.
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