THE HAGUE, 9 June, 2021 (TON): On Tuesday, Ratko Mladic the Bosnian military chief lost his final legal battle

When the UN judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence.

Mladic is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war.

Mladic was first indicted in July 1995. After the war in Bosnia ended, he went into hiding and was finally arrested in 2011 and handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by the then-ruling pro-Western government of Serbia.

Serge Brammertz, the prosecutor who finally brought both Karadzic and Mladic to justice, said Mladic “ranks among the most notorious war criminals in modern history” who abused his position of power to commit crimes including genocide.

“Mladic should be condemned by all responsible officials in the former Yugoslavia and around the world,” Brammertz said. “His name should be consigned to the list of history’s most depraved and barbarous figures,” he added.

The court also rejected an appeal by prosecutors of Mladic’s acquittal on one other count of genocide linked to ethnic eviction early in the war.