Bosnian prime minister welcomes Mladic guilty verdict

22 November 2017, 2:20 pm

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Bosnian Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic welcomes the verdict against former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, who was found guilty by a UN war crimes tribunal of crimes against humanity and genocide during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Zvizdic said in a statement that the verdict “confirmed that war criminals cannot escape justice regardless of how long they hide.”

Zvizdic says Mladic’s life sentence “will not bring back to life thousands of killed innocent civilians nor will it bring comfort to their families, but it is of immense importance for the future of (the Balkans) as a deterrent to all those who dream of future wars and continue to stoke ethnic tensions.”

— AP