The director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Emir Suljagić, commented about calls for the release of war criminal Ratko Mladić, stressing that this is not possible without consultations with survivors, and that their response is well known.
“Whatever they ask, the mechanism will never make a decision to release someone like Ratko Mladić without consulting the survivor community. You already know our response,” Suljagić wrote on the social network X.
In recent days, officials from Republika Srpska and Serbia have intensified calls for Mladić to be released for treatment in Serbia, due to what they claim is his serious health condition.
It should be noted that war criminal Mladić has survived several strokes, suffers from cardiovascular disease.
The Residual Mechanism of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague has so far rejected such requests.
Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes committed during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the crimes include, among others, the genocide in Srebrenica, the first genocide committed in Europe after World War II.
