Go to the media bankChairman of the Public Committee in Defense of General Ratko Mladic of Serbia and the Republika Srpska Darko Mladic . File photoBELGRADE, Sep 10The former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, General Ratko Mladic, was admitted to the prison hospital of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MOMUT) in The Hague, he has fluid in his lungs and worsened heart function, his son, Darko Mladic, told RIA Novosti. for the Criminal Tribunals (MOMUT) in June 2021 approved a life sentence for the now 80-year-old General Mladic on 10 of 11 counts of war crimes, including the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. The authorities of Serbia and the Republic of BiH expressed their disagreement with the verdict.The Russian diplomat commented on the court's decision on MladicAs RIA Novosti was told by his son and lawyers, the health of the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army in prison in The Hague has deteriorated sharply this year, there is practically no information about treatment. «In recent months, since the end of May, the general's health has been deteriorating, there were several situations when he became ill, literally fell, on such days he was sent to the hospital and returned.We did not receive specific medical reports, what was the reason.On Sunday he was admitted to the civil hospital in The Hague and on Wednesday we were told that he had he had pneumonia, fluid in the lungs,» Mladic's son told the agency. «The work of the heart also worsened. It is not known whether this happened because there was fluid in the lungs or vice versa. We are waiting for the results, but on Thursday we received only materials for the end of August, when he suffered COVID-19. We expect new documents on Monday fir tree, we have a team of doctors ready to study them,» said Darko Mladic. He specified that General Mladic was transferred to a prison hospital on Thursday, and until that time he had been in a civilian hospital in The Hague.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the sentence to Mladic hypocritical «We talk on the phone with him every day, he calls directly from the hospital bed, he was provided with such an opportunity. He hardly speaks, but is conscious, although he cannot speak for a long time, because he is very weak,» the son of the general emphasized. Ratko Mladic, who commanded the army of the Republika Srpska during the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hid from international justice for 16 years and was arrested by the Serbian authorities in 2011. In November 2017, the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found the general guilty on 10 of 11 counts, including the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 and violation of the laws and customs of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992-1995 years. Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment. In August 2018, the general’s lawyers filed a complaint with the Appeals Chamber against the life sentence of the court of first instance, and in August 2020, an appeal hearing was held. Proceedings. The defense of the general, not satisfied with the actions of the ICTY doctors, for two years demanded permission for the examination of the defendant by Russian specialists from the Bakulev Center. Lawyers and family members have repeatedly stated that the ICTY does not provide them with information about the real state of the general’s health, and doctors in the UN prison (detention center in The Hague), according to them, do not provide proper treatment.
Ratko Mladic's son reported the deterioration of his father's health in prison
