Trial of Ratko Mladić

Unknown perpetrators on Thursday removed a banner with the slogan "Ratko Mladic is a war criminal convicted of genocide" from the building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad which houses the offices of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, LSV political party.

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As a reminder, by the first-instance verdict of the Hague Tribunal, whose work was inherited by the Mechanism, Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2017, after which both the defense and the prosecution appealed the decision.

"A very, very dangerous man."

This is how the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, described the fugitive she hunted for more than a decade in order to bring him for trial for the first genocide on European soil since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Several hundreds protesters, led by opposition MPs in the assembly of Republika Srpska, the mainly Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, gathered for a second time in the Mladen Stojanovic park in Banja Luka, close to the RS government building after the authorities refused to allow them to gather in the central Krajina Square.

Defence lawyers for Ratko Mladic, who is appealing aganst his war crimes conviction, say they will file a request for a four-day leave from detention for the former Bosnian Serb Army chief.

Serbian activists rallied on the 14th anniversary of two soldiers’ unexplained killings at a Belgrade barracks where war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was allegedly hiding, while the men’s families demanded progress in the investigation.

A mural monument honouring former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic, which has been installed at the entrance to his hometown Kalinovik, was criticised for glorifying the war crimes defendant.

Posters of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic have been put up at a municipality building in East Sarajevo, in what the mayor said was a gesture of support for the war crimes defendant.

The UN war crimes tribunal said Belgrade must declare its willingness to take over the case against two Serbian Radical Party members who are wanted for interfering with witnesses at their leader’s trial.

Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic visited convicted former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic in custody in The Hague and said that Serbia will probably request his temporary release for medical treatment.