A UN court refused to release General Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide. “He approaches the end of life, a human fate”
Ratko Mladic in 2011 Photo: Martin Meissner / AP / Profimedia
A UN court rejected on Tuesday the request of former Serbian general Bosnian Ratko Mladic, who executes a life imprisonment for his role in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, to be released urgently for health reasons, Reuters, taken over by Agerpres.
In a decision published on the court's website, he shows that, even if Mladic's health is precarious, it is stable and well managed at the UN detention center.
The exact medical situation of the former general, now 83 years old, is censored in the court of the court, but it is known to suffer from cognitive disorders and has been hospitalized at least twice this year, according to previous hearings and documents.
“The uncontrolled medical opinions show that Mladic is approaching the end of life, a fate that is human,” said the president of the Court, Graciela Gatti Santana, in determination.
She added that the former general does not suffer from an acute terminal disease that would justify her release.
In 2021, the mechanism for international criminal courts (MTPI)-which took over the pole from the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (TPIY) after its closure in 2017-confirmed in the appeal the sentence to Mladic's life for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the bloody conflict (1992) For his role in the Srebrenica massacre, since 1995.
