UN Chief Expresses Solidarity with Victims of Ratko Mladić

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced solidarity with the victims and survivors of crimes attributed to Ratko Mladić, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces. Mladić died on Thursday while serving a life sentence in The Hague.

"The Secretary-General expresses his solidarity with the victims, survivors, and their families who have suffered the crimes for which Mladić was found guilty," stated his spokesperson in a release.

The UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) confirmed Mladić's death on Thursday afternoon. The MICT also announced that an investigation into the circumstances of his death, as per protocol for such cases, will be conducted.

Mladić was definitively found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, as well as persecution, extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts, terrorizing, unlawful attacks on civilians, and hostage-taking. These convictions were upheld by the MICT's Appeals Chamber in June 2021, rejecting all defense appeals against the initial ruling.

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The Secretary-General expresses his solidarity with the victims, survivors, and their families who have suffered the crimes for which Mladić was found guilty.