7 hours agoOnly God can save Mladic, says his lawyer, Toma Fila.
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Toma Fila, Ratko Mladic's lawyer, has said his client is unlikely to get away well when tomorrow the final decision is pronounced on charges of killing more than 8 thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys in 1995. According to him, early convicts of life imprisonment by Tribunali [...]
According to him, previously sentenced to life imprisonment by The Hague War Crimes Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia on charges concerning the Srebrenica massacre and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks and Muslims could only help God.
I'll go to church and pray to God. This is what a generation can do. Only God can help, this is my only hope”, Phila said of the news agency “Srna”.
According to him, The Hague Tributal “is designed to show that Serbs are the ones to blame for everything”. In this context, he said that the “Serbs have been sentenced more than a thousand years in prison” by this international justice institution.
“No Croat from Croatia, as well as no Albanian (have been convicted)”, Fila has said, broadcast Klan Kosova.tv.
The final decision on Mladic will be made known Tuesday in The Hague.
The former general, who commanded Serb forces during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, had been sentenced to those charges even earlier. On November 22, 2017, he was given life imprisonment,
He was held responsible for overseeing and monitoring the killings of more than 80,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
The court also found Mladic guilty of ethnic cleansing campaigns against Bosniaks and Croats, as well as of killing and terrorising civilians in the Bosnian capital, during the 43-month siege of Sarajevo.
More than 80 media are expected to broadcast the decision warned on Tuesday, Tuesday, on the 15th.
