Ratko Mladic (Jerry Lampen/Pool via AP)
An international court in The Hague sentenced on June 8 former Republika Srpska Army commander Ratko Mladic to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity against Muslims and Croats during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992-1995.
The court's appeals chamber upheld Ratko Mladic's first-instance verdict, despite the opposition of chairing judge Prisca Nyambe, which was passed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Nov. 22 2017, and rejected the appeals of both the defense and prosecutors.
Rejecting all of the defense's nine arguments, the court ruled that general Mladic (78) was guilty as the main actor in four joint criminal enterprises - genocide in Srebrenica, the persecution of Croats and Muslims around Bosnia and Herzegovina, the terrorizing of the population of Sarajevo through long-lasting shelling and sniper fire and taking UNPROFOR soldiers hostage, from 1992-1995.
According to the verdict, Mladic was a protagonist in a joint criminal enterprise with the objective of permanently and violently removing Muslim and Croats from large portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina's territory to achieve Serbian domination
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