In the history of international justice for war crimes in the Former Yugoslavia, May 26 marks a turning point. In 2011, after a search that lasted 16 years, the authorities executed the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, who was accused of being primarily responsible for organizing and leading the Srebrenica massacre.
The arrest operation ended the long period of concealment of one of the figures most wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Mladic was accused of orchestrating the mass killing of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.
On May 26, 2011, Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt. is confirmed in the official chronology of the events of that period.
After his arrest, the process of immediate transfer to the United Nations detention center began, paving the way for one of the most important trials for crimes against humanity in post-World War II Europe.
Extradited to face trial in The Hague, Netherlands, Mladic was convicted in 2017 of genocide and war crimes charges and is serving a life sentence. is evidenced in the final decision of the judging panel.
This final sentence finally closed the judicial chapter against the military commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, sanctioning his guilt at the international level for the acts of genocide on the Bosnian territory.
