‘Even if he is sentenced 1000 times to life in prison,justice would still not be served,’ says victim who lost relatives in massacreThe reaction in Bosnia to the news of Ratko Mladić’s conviction for genocide, and war crimes and crimes against humanity was as divided as the country itself,more than 20 years after the terminate of the civil wars that followed the rupture-up of the Yugoslav state.
Among Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) the most common response was relief that the trial was finally over and that Mladić – unlike the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milošević – had lived long enough to hear the guilty verdict. The relief was tinged with regret that justice had been such a long time coming and when it came, or it appeared so puny alongside the scale of pain and loss.
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Source: guardian.co.uk