Commentary: The bodies finally caught up with the 'Butcher of Bosnia'
by Peggy O'Donnell, Chicago Tribune
Nov 29, 2017
3 minutes
"They are lying! You are lying!" Those were the words Nov. 22 of former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, a defendant who could not contain his anger at being held to account for his crimes.
As a judge read aloud the final trial judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Mladic, a man once known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," demanded that he stop reading the list of convictions: guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. "I am very distraught," Mladic shouted in the courtroom in
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