Lawyers for former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, serving life imprisonment for genocide, have asked a UN court to release him on “humanitarian grounds” – claiming he has a terminal ...

Radislav Krstic, former commander of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the genocide in Srebrenica, will continue serving his sentence in ...

In 2017, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs’ military commander, called the Butcher of Bosnia, was also sentenced to life for two counts of genocide in his role in Srebrenica. Clauses in the proposed ...

Radislav Krstic, former general of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) and an associate of Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for participating in the Srebrenica genocide by the ...

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed over eight thousand Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. For the genocide and other crimes in the Srebrenica area, more than 50 people were sentenced to a total ...

Relatively recent convictions for genocide include Bernard Munyagishari, Jean Uwinkindi, and Jean-Paul Akayesu in Rwanda; and Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, and Radislav Krstic in the former ...

Mladic’s deputy, Gen. Radislav Krstic, is serving a 35-year prison term for aiding and abetting genocide, and Col. Vidoje Blagojevic is appealing his 18-year sentence for complicity in genocide.

2001 August - Hague war crimes tribunal finds Bosnian Serb Gen Radislav Krstic guilty of genocide for his role in the massacre of thousands of men and boys in Srebrenica. Krstic sentenced to 46 ...

At the time, Krstic was the closest associate of former Republika Srpska Army commander Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes, including the Srebrenica genocide. During the ...

July 11 – Under the command of General Ratko Mladic, Serb forces capture Srebrenica and systematically kill more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. This is later ruled a genocide by the ...

Gen. Radislav Krstic is the highest-ranking war crimes suspect to be taken into custody at The Hague, seat of the U.N. tribunal prosecuting war crimes and genocide in the bitter 1991-95 conflicts ...