Mladic passed fit to face war crimes trial

A JUDGE ruled yesterday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.

Mladic passed fit to face war crimes trial

The ruling came amid pleas from Mladic’s family that he was too ill to be transferred to the UN court in The Hague and that he was not guilty of organising the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica — the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II — and the 43-month siege of Sarajevo.

Outside Serbia’s special war crimes court, Judge Maja Kovacevic said: “It has been established that Ratko Mladic’s health condition makes him fit to stand trial... We have decided the conditions for transfer have been met.

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