UN court upholds life sentence for former Bosnian Serb commander

UN war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, rejecting all grounds of his appeal against a lower tribunal's verdict.

(Cover: Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic enters the courtroom prior to the pronouncement of his appeal judgement at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, June 8, 2021. /Reuters)