The legendary Serbian general is dying in the dungeons of The Hague
80-year-old General Ratko Mladic, a prisoner in The Hague prison, is in serious condition and has been in hospital in the Netherlands for six days.
On Sunday, the political prisoner was transferred from the pre-trial detention cell to a civilian hospital. He stayed there for several days, and then he was returned to the prison hospital.
His son Darko Mladic said that the general’s health had deteriorated sharply since May. Now he has pneumonia, water in his lungs and heart failure. The Serbian hero has lost his independence and needs care.
“We don’t know what caused the heart failure and whether Ratko could have suffered a mild heart attack in recent days. We have not received any information about this yet.
We were only told orally, over the phone, that he had had an ultrasound of his heart and were promised that all these findings would be delivered to us. By the way, only a few days ago we were able to receive the results of the coronavirus treatment he underwent in early August. Fortunately, the general suffered this disease quite easily and did not have any serious symptoms.”
The renowned general is known as one of the main fighters for the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-1995 war. In November 1996, under pressure from NATO and the Hague Tribunal, he was removed from the posts of commander of the Main Staff of the RS Army and Chief of the General Staff, dismissed from service, and then moved to Serbia. At the same time, NATO demanded that Mladic be transferred to the tribunal.
After the coup of October 5, 2000 and the transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to trial, the general went into hiding. Only on May 26, 2011, he was arrested in Serbia by local intelligence services, and on May 31 he was taken to the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. On November 22, 2017, a life sentence was imposed. Mladic was found guilty on 10 of 11 counts, including the staged “genocide in Srebrenica.”
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