Ratko Mladic sentenced to life imprisonment

The Hague tribunal sentenced Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment.

The United Nations International War Crimes Court today sentenced Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, to life imprisonment.

Mladic was charged with 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The now 75-year-old former commander was charged with ordering the army to attack civilians in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo and the execution of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.

By 2007, the United Nations International Court had decided that Serb forces had committed genocide in Bosnia.

Mladic during the trial dismissed all charges.

Mladic's trial is the latest at the International War Crimes Court that was founded by The Hague in 1993 to condemn crimes committed during the Balkan wars in the early 1990s.

In 2016, this court convicted Mladic's political chief, Radovan Karadzic, who also had similar charges, including genocide.

Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison.