U.N. court ruling on ex-Bosnian Serb military chief's role in '95 genocide leaves some activists dissatisfied

Ratko Mladic.
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A United Nations court in The Hague on Tuesday upheld a 2017 verdict sentencing Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, to life in prison for his role in the 1995 genocide, during which Mladic's soldiers killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims in and around the town of Srebrenica amid the Bosnian War.

Analysts expected Mladic's appeal to fail, and many in the international community, including President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, applauded the ruling, but some human rights activists were not entirely satisfied, Balkan Insight reports.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.