On 8 June 2021 the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals handed down its judgment in the Mladić case.
The IRMCT was established by UN Security Council Resolution 1966 (2010) to complete the remaining work of
the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after the completion of their respective mandates.See also the Statement by the Prosecutor
Mladić was found guilty for commanding violent ethnic cleansing campaigns across Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. He was further convicted for commanding a campaign of crimes against the civilian population during the Siege of Sarajevo. He was also convicted for using the forces under his command to commit genocide against the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica. Finally, he was convicted for taking UN peacekeepers hostage and using them as human shields.
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