Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Mladic handed life sentence in The Hague

Former Bosnian Serb general Rakto Mladic has been given a life sentence for a string of crimes committed in the Bosnian war in the nineteen nineties. 

Once known as the Butcher of Bosnia, judges in The Hague say he bears a large part of the responsibility for the deaths of over 8000 muslims men and boys during the Srebrenica massacre.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

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