Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction in UN court over Srebrenica massacre upheld

United Nations war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, rejecting all grounds of his appeal against a lower tribunal’s verdict.

He had been convicted by trial and ordered to serve life in prison on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, but appealed against both the verdict and sentence.

The appeals chamber “dismisses Mladic appeal in its entirety … dismisses the prosecution’s appeal in its entirety … affirms the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on Mladic by the trial chamber,” said a written summary of the appeals judgment.