PNN – Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for genocide and war crimes, has called for his release from prison.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Agence France-Presse, Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his crimes during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), filed a plea on Tuesday claiming he had only months left to live.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced Mladic to life in prison for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995.
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In a petition submitted to the court by Mladic’s lawyer and seen by AFP, it is claimed that he is terminally ill and has only “a few months to live.”
Mladic is 83 years old, and those around him have long stated that he is ill and frail, and in 2017 they called for his release on health and physical grounds.
He was on the run for 16 years and was finally arrested in Serbia in 2011. He is now imprisoned in The Hague, Netherlands.