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APPEAL PROCESS
Ratko Mladic's son: He did not have the strength to prepare for the interrogation, it is questionable what his memory is
Mladic himself will be able to speak for ten minutes on Wednesday, but it is still unknown whether he will be physically present in the courtroom.
Writes: HinaPosted: August 25, 2020 12:06 pm
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International judges on Tuesday morning began a two-day appeals hearing in the case of Ratko Mladic , a former Bosnian Serb military leader sentenced to life in prison for genocide in Srebrenica and other war crimes.
The appeal procedure in The Hague has already been postponed several times because the 78-year-old Mladic had surgery to remove a benign polyp on his colon, and then because of a coronavirus pandemic.
More than 20 years after a war that killed more than 100,000 and displaced 2.2 million people, Mladic, 77, dubbed a "Bosnian butcher", was found guilty on ten charges, including the Srebrenica genocide, where the Bosnian Serb army and police In 1995, she killed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts, established to complete cases that remained active after the closure of the courts for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the defense will speak first.
Mladic himself will be able to speak for ten minutes on Wednesday, but it is still unknown whether he will be physically present in the courtroom or address a video link from his prison in Scheveningen, a coastal suburb of The Hague.
The Bosnian Serb leader had to be pulled out of the courtroom in 2017 after an outburst in which he accused judges of lying.
No power
Mladic's son Darko told France Presse that the former military commander failed to prepare for the hearing due to his health condition.
"He does not have the strength to work of that kind, and I think it is questionable what his memory is," Darko Mladic pointed out.
"His lawyers could not visit him and therefore there was no adequate communication. So he failed to prepare in several aspects. "
Last week, judges rejected a new request by Mladic's defense for a postponement, requested due to health problems.
In the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million ended up in exile.
The young man was the military face of three political leaders, along with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic.
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The gruesome footage shows Mladic, in addition to members of the United Nations peacekeeping force from the Netherlands, assuring the people of Srebrenica that nothing will happen to them, even though his soldiers are preparing for the massacre at the moment.
The former general was arrested in 2011, after years of fleeing. Milosevic died in his cell in The Hague in March 2006, and Karadzic is serving a life sentence for genocide.
An important event
The 2017 verdict was appealed by both the defense and prosecutors seeking the reversal of the acquittal for genocide in several areas other than Srebrenica.
"Mothers of Srebrenica", a group of women associated with the victims of the massacre in that town who have been protesting in front of the court for years, will not participate in the hearing for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"This is the first time that we do not participate in such an important event in the court in The Hague," said Munira Subašić, president of the association.
She emphasized that she hoped that there would be no additional delays in the trial against Mladic because the court "must not lose motivation and must continue with its mission".
"We hope that Mladic will be found guilty of genocide in other cities, not only the one in Srebrenica," she said.
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