THE HAGUE (HRNW) – International judges will on Tuesday begin hearing an appeal by Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic against his life sentence for genocide over the Srebrenica massacre and other war crimes.
The two-day hearing in The Hague was delayed several times after Mladic, 78, needed an operation to remove a benign polyp on his colon and then because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mladic, dubbed the Butcher of Bosnia, was sentenced to life behind bars in 2017 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the bloody Balkans civil war in the 1990s.
This included genocide committed by his Bosnian Serb forces in the small eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in mid-1995, Europe s worst bloodshed since World War II, where some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered.
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