‘Butcher of the Balkans’ Ratko Mladic to face verdict next month for war crimes and genocide
He has denied 11 charges arising from an alleged ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Serbia in the 1990s
UN judges will next month deliver a long-awaited verdict against former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, accused of war crimes and genocide during the Balkans conflicts, the court announced on Wednesday.
The case of the feared military commander dubbed “the Butcher of the Balkans” is the last before the Yugoslav war crimes court set up at the height of the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.
“The pronouncement of the judgment in this case shall take place on Wednesday November 22 at 10am,” the presiding judge Alphons Orie said in a statement.
Mladic, 74, has denied 11 war crimes charges arising from an alleged ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Serbia in the 1990s wars.
More than 100,000 people died and 2.2 million others were left homeless during the Bosnian war, one of several conflicts which erupted in the death throes of the former Yugoslavia.
