3 hours agoSecretary NATO Enjoys Sentence on Mladic
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Secretary - General NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, has welcomed the decision to confirm with life in prison to Bosnian butcher Ratko Mladic. He wrote in a Twitter post that it is fair that Mladic is held responsible for his vicious crimes against civilians, including the killing of thousands of Bosniak men and boys in [...]
He wrote in a Twitter post that it is fair that Mladic is held responsible for his vicious crimes against civilians, including the murder of thousands of Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
“NATO helped to end two ethnic wars in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and to close a dark and shameful chapter in European history. The region remains strategically important to our Alliance. We will continue to contribute to stability and security throughout the Western Balkans, promoting peace and reconciliation”, Stoltenberg wrote.
Former Bosnian Serb Army leader Ratko Mladic, known as the “casapi of Bosnia, will suffer his eternal sentence after an appeal to his war crimes sentences was rejected Tuesday.
Mladic, 79, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after being convicted of genocide for atrocities committed during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995.
Tuesday's ruling ends the recent major war crimes trial in the Balkans before a UN tribunal.
Bosnia's butcher was charged with two counts of genocide and nine crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, where 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million others were displaced. He was acquitted of a genocide charge, but found guilty of each of the other 10 points.
