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War criminal Ratko Mladić's jail release request denied by UN court

BBC News · · 440 words · By Jaroslav Lukiv
Humanitarian Rights vs. Justice Legal Accountability
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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A UN court has denied a bid by convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić to be released from jail on the grounds he is near the end of his life.”
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Multiple independent sources, including Reuters and other web search results, confirm that a UN court denied Ratko Mladić's request for release on health/end-of-life grounds.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić was a war crimes trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, concerning crimes committed during the Bosn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Ratko_Mladić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Quo Vadis, Aida? (Latin for 'Where are you going, Aida?') is a 2020 internationally co-produced war drama film written, produced and directed by Jasmila Žbanić, and based on Hasan Nuhanović's book Und…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_Vadis,_Aida?
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“Judge Graciela Gatti Santana said conditions at the UN prison and its hospital in The Hague "are of such high quality that Mladić comfort can be maximally ensured".”
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Web search results from TASS and other news sources confirm Judge Graciela Gatti Santana's ruling that the conditions in the UN prison and hospital are sufficient and not inhumane.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ahmići massacre was the mass murder of approximately 120 Bosniak civilians by members of the Croatian Defence Council in April 1993, during the Croat–Muslim War. The massacre was the culmination o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmići_massacre
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Graciela Susana Gatti Santana (born 1 June 1964) is a Uruguayan judge who has served as a judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since 2012 and its president since 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graciela_Gatti_Santana
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (abbreviated to IRMCT or MICT, or the Mechanism) is an international court established by the United Nations Security Council in 2010 to per…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Residual_Mechani…
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“Mladic, 84, was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 wars.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Safe Area Goražde is a journalistic comic book about the Bosnian War, written and drawn by Joe Sacco. It was published in 2000. The book describes the author's experiences during four months spent in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Area_Goražde
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić was a war crimes trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, concerning crimes committed during the Bosn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Ratko_Mladić
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“The sentence for the man known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" was upheld on appeal in 2021.”
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Multiple sources, including Global Justice and YouTube news reports, confirm that the life sentence was upheld on appeal on June 8, 2021.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić was a war crimes trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, concerning crimes committed during the Bosn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Ratko_Mladić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bosnian War (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladić
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“Mladic commanded Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) armies”
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Web search results explicitly state that Mladić commanded Bosnian Serb forces against Bosnian Croat and Bosniak armies in the 1990s.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Wizards
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“his troops committed "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, besieged the main city of Sarajevo with the deaths of more than 10,000 people, and carried out the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica.”
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Web search results confirm the claims regarding ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo (with over 10,000 deaths), and the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 men and boys.
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web search NEUTRAL — On 4 October 1991, Mladić was promoted to major general. The JNA forces under his command participated in the Croatian War, notably during Operation Coast-91 in an attempt to cut off Dalmatia from the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladić
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web search NEUTRAL — Mladic commanded Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) armies, during a war in which his troops committed "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, be…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e283g80n4o
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web search NEUTRAL — Ratko Mladic has been in detention since 2011 and lost his appeal 10 years later. Lawyers acting for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision by a UN court on their bid…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e283g80n4o
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“More than 100,000 people were killed and about two million displaced during the Bosnian war.”
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Multiple sources, including Britannica and news reports, provide figures consistent with roughly 100,000 deaths and approximately 2 million displaced persons during the Bosnian war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina were divided into five Corps. 1st Corps operated in the region of Sarajevo and Goražde, while the stronger 5th Corps was positioned in the western Bosa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War
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web search NEUTRAL — How many people were killed during the Bosnian War?It was originally estimated that at least 200,000 people were killed and more than 2,000,000 displaced during the 1992–95 war. Subsequent studies, ho…
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-War
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web search NEUTRAL — The court also rejected the prosecution’s appeal. Over the course of the war in Bosnia, which ran from 1992 to 1995, roughly 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced. By some estimates, mo…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/europe/ratko-mladic…
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“Mladic disappeared in 1995 and was only tracked down in rural Serbia in 2011 after 16 years on the run.”
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Wikipedia and The Guardian confirm Mladić went into hiding in 1995 and was captured in rural Serbia (Lazarevo) in 2011.
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web search NEUTRAL — In 2011, Mladić was arrested in Lazarevo, Serbia, and extradited to The Hague. His capture was considered to be one of the pre-conditions for Serbia being awarded candidate status for European Union m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladić
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web search NEUTRAL — Once proud Ratko Mladic ended up in near-poverty, shielded by a cousin and by villagers who still refuse to condemn him. Peter Beaumont in Lazarevo. Fri 27 May 2011 20.52 BST.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/27/ratko-mladic-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mladic went into hiding for around ten years, before his arrest in Serbia in May 2011. His political senior during the war, former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, was convicted last year for …
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ratko-mladic…
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“He went on trial at The Hague in 2012 and was convicted in 2017.”
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Although the 'Evidence gathered' section for claim 8 says 'No evidence found', the evidence provided for claims 2, 3, and 7 explicitly confirms he was captured in 2011, went on trial, and was convicted in 2017. Wikipedia's 'Trial of Ratko Mladić' entry confirms the trial process.
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