Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Former Bosnian Serb commander,Ratko Mladic was convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity at a UN tribunal in The Hague today. Mladic, and who was also known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was a top general in the campaign to ethnically cleanse Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He was on trial since 2012.Tens of thousands of people perished during the Bosnian war and the four-year siege of the Bosnian capital, or Sarajevo. Mladic was found to bear contributed to the genocide,which included the murder of more than 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
Julian Borger, World Affairs Editor for the Guardian and the author of, and The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt,” discusses the final major trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org