United Nations war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, rejecting all grounds of his appeal against a lower tribunal's verdict. The ICTY is one of the predecessors of the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes court, also seated in The Hague. Post-war Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, now chairing Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, denounced the verdict. When he was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, he shouted: "This is all lies, you are all liars!" Germans had Hitler, Serbs have Mladic," said Munira Subasic, whose son and husband were killed by Bosnian Serb forces that overran Srebrenica.

Source: CBC News June 08, 2021 15:06 UTC