Ratko Mladic found guilty of genocide over Bosnian war, sentenced to life imprisonment - Polidicks

[B]Former Bosnian Serb army commander known as the ‘butcher of Bosnia’ sentenced to life imprisonment more than 20 years after Srebrenica massacre[/B] [IMG_thumb]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/897B/production/_98859153_f7ff0e50-f57d-4f3c-ab86-6115ead7b050.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [QUOTE]Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", he faced 11 charges, including crimes against humanity, at the UN tribunal. He was convicted of the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995 and the siege of Sarajevo in which more than 10,000 people died. Mladic was sentenced to life in prison. The 74-year-old was removed from the courtroom shortly before the long-awaited sentence was read, after shouting at the judges. They had rejected a request by his lawyer to halt the proceedings on health grounds.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The long-anticipated verdict was delayed for more than half an hour after Mladić asked the judge for a bathroom break. When he returned, his defense team then asked for proceedings to be halted or shortened because of his high blood pressure, but judges denied the request. Mladic stood up shouting at the judges, and was forcibly removed from the courtroom to allow the verdicts to be read. He faced 11 charges, two of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and four of violations of the laws or customs of war. He was cleared of one count of genocide, but found guilty of all other charges. The separate counts related to “ethnic cleansing” operations in Bosnia, sniping and shelling attacks on besieged civilians in Sarajevo, the massacre of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica and taking UN personnel hostage in an attempt to deter Nato airstrikes.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42080090"]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42080090[/URL] [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-convicted-of-genocide-and-war-crimes-at-un-tribunal"]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-convicted-of-genocide-and-war-crimes-at-un-tribunal[/URL]

Pity they don't still hang war criminals.

Stewart Lee's let himself go

oh, THIS massive piece of animal shit how has it taken this long to bang the gavel for him? bureaucracy? and even after trying to research the big Balkan fuck-up, i still haven't really gotten what actually lead to the war and why it was so dirty. did the serbs just hate everyone that wasn't them for not being them?

[QUOTE=Joazzz;52913984]oh, THIS massive piece of animal shit how has it taken this long to bang the gavel for him? bureaucracy? and even after trying to research the big Balkan fuck-up, i still haven't really gotten what actually lead to the war and why it was so dirty. did the serbs just hate everyone that wasn't them for not being them?[/QUOTE] Well, they only caught him a few years back. You also have to make sure you've crossed every T and dotted every I with a case like this. You fuck up legally somewhere and the bastard walks free.

Thank fuck this craven sack of worthless shit finally got what he deserved. Well besides catastrophically losing four(technically five) wars in a row that is.

[QUOTE=Joazzz;52913984]oh, THIS massive piece of animal shit how has it taken this long to bang the gavel for him? bureaucracy? and even after trying to research the big Balkan fuck-up, i still haven't really gotten what actually lead to the war and why it was so dirty. did the serbs just hate everyone that wasn't them for not being them?[/QUOTE] The cases at the ICTY are [I]massive[/I]. They deliberately go through every single municipality extensively tracking the movements of the accused to prove what they knew at what times. They have hundreds of witnesses who testify per trial, both victims and perpetrators. All of this testimony is essential. It creates a massive picture of the scale of the war crimes, about 100k victims in total. And Mladic was the man who made it happen, he was the general who ordered the attacks and bombardments of Sarajevo and Srebrenica. We look at the mass graves, the military orders, the words they used to establish the knowledge and purpose behind their actions. I actually worked on Mladic's case. Glad to see him convicted. Good to see that they got him on one of the genocide counts, that's a really big deal. A lot of the defendants skirted the genocide counts for basic crimes against humanity counts. While the sentences are the same to my recollection, there's a massive validation for the victims when it's called a genocide. It's the difference between just killing civilians indiscriminately and deliberately targeting groups, which is what Mladic and his subordinates were doing. Proud day. Good job OTP. Now it's the Appeal's turn. Don't let him wiggle out of any of it.

[QUOTE=Joazzz;52913984]oh, THIS massive piece of animal shit how has it taken this long to bang the gavel for him? bureaucracy? and even after trying to research the big Balkan fuck-up, i still haven't really gotten what actually lead to the war and why it was so dirty. did the serbs just hate everyone that wasn't them for not being them?[/QUOTE] Oh no it was way more complicated than that, and the serbs weren't the only ones who committed atrocities, though they probably did the most. I'd recommend researching the war, its like a row of dominoes but the dominoes are filled with nitroglycerin.

[QUOTE=Broguts;52914217]Oh no it was way more complicated than that, and the serbs weren't the only ones who committed atrocities, though they probably did the most. I'd recommend researching the war, its like a row of dominoes but the dominoes are filled with nitroglycerin.[/QUOTE] Do you know any documentaries?

[QUOTE=MrJazzy;52914268]Do you know any documentaries?[/QUOTE] Im told "The Death of Yugoslavia" is the best and its all on youtube but I havent watched any docus myself. They taught us about this in grade 11 social studies and then I did a bunch of reading. The tldr of the whole thing is after Tito died Yugoslavia was falling apart and Slobodan didnt want that, he also wanted Serbia to be more prominent in Yugoslavia (it was the biggest country with the biggest army in the state after all) and Croatia really didn't help things by electing a far FAR right wing guy who changed the Croatian flag to the one the nazi-sympathetic Croat government used in ww2 and things just kinda progressively got further and further out of control. A fair amount of the Serbian war crimes werent caused by Serbia the country, they were caused by local militias in Krajina (the Serbian parts of Bosnia) but the Serbian government kinda sanctioned them, its all very fucking complex, also Bosnia got help from Mujahadeen including a branch of Al Qaeda.