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UN court upholds life sentence for 'Butcher of Bosnia' Mladic

 The verdict by five judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals is final and cannot be appealed any further.

Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic stands prior to the pronouncement of his appeal judgement
at the UN tribunal in The Hague on June 8, 2021. (Reuters)

The UN court has upheld genocide and war crimes convictions of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and dismissed his appeal.

UN judges in The Hague ruled on Tuesday on an appeal by the so-called "Butcher of Bosnia" against his 2017 conviction and life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

The verdict by five judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals – which deals with cases from the now-closed Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal – is final and cannot be appealed any further.


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