UN court weighs release plea for dying war criminal Mladic

Mladic's forces killed over 10,000 people during the Sarajevo siege and massacred 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica; victim groups oppose his potential release.

In The Hague, a UN court weighs one of the most difficult tensions in international justice: whether mercy can be extended to a man convicted of orchestrating genocide, as age and illness close in on him. Ratko Mladic, 84, whose forces killed tens of thousands during the Bosnian wars of the 1990s, is seeking release on humanitarian grounds following a suspected stroke. A judge has ordered an independent medical assessment, while survivors and victim groups watch closely, fearing that compassion for the perpetrator may come at the cost of their long-sought reckoning. The outcome will ask someth

UN court weighs release plea for dying war criminal Mladic

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