Ratko Mladic’s Judgement Day
Twenty-two years after he was indicted for the worst atrocities in Europe since WWII, former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic will hear his verdict today in what is one of the most anticipated judgements in the history of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
At 10am, the Hague Tribunal will deliver its ruling in Mladic’s landmark trial for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Read more about the background of the trial.
Despite previous suggestions by his legal team that Ratko Mladic might not attend today’s verdict due to ill health, his lawyer Branko Lukic told Serbia’s national broadcaster, RTS, that the defendant will be present after all.
Lukic could not confirm that Mladic, who is 74 and has long complained of poor health, will remain for the whole session because the reading of the verdict will continue for more than two hours.
BIRN reporters in The Hague said there was an incident this morning in front of the
UN tribunal building when a man arrived carrying a Serbian flag. The man said
he thought Mladic was a hero.
Two representatives of Bosnian war victims confronted him, telling him he should
"not provoke" people, and the man then left.
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