The team of doctors from the University Clinical Center of the RS completed the examinations of the war criminal Ratko Mladić, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The team also got in touch with the war criminal Stojan Župljanin, who is with Mladić in the detention unit, and who gave the doctors information about Mladić’s health problems.
“From Župljanin, we took information about Mladić’s capabilities when performing everyday activities, which will contribute to our general finding, that is, the consular opinion that we will submit to the Hague Tribunal,” said the general director of the UKC, Vlado Đajić.
He stated that the war criminal Mladić was glad that the doctors from the RS visited him, as well as the opportunity to say in Serbian about his ailments.
In the indictment, it is alleged that Ratko Mladić is individually criminally responsible pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Tribunal’s Statute for the counts set out above, inter alia through his participation in a number of Joint Criminal Enterprises (JCEs).
It is stated that, from 12 May 1992 until 30 November 1995, Mladić participated in a JCE to permanently remove Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat inhabitants from territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were claimed as Bosnian Serb territory.
It is further alleged that, between 12 May 1992 and November 1995, Mladić participated in a JCE to establish and carry out a campaign of sniping and shelling against the civilian population of Sarajevo, aimed to spread terror amongst them.
In addition, it is alleged that, during the period immediately preceding 11 July and until 1 November 1995, Mladić participated in a JCE to eliminate Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica by killing men and boys and forcibly removing women, young children and the elderly from the area.
Lastly, it is alleged that during May and June 1995, Mladić participated in a JCE to take United Nations personnel hostage in order to compel NATO to abstain from conducting air strikes against Bosnian Serb military targets.
Mladić is also charged as a superior pursuant to Article 7(3) of the Statute for the crimes in the indictment, for inter alia, knowing or having reason to know that crimes were about to be committed or had been committed by forces under his effective control and failing to prevent the crimes or punish the perpetrators.
The crimes alleged in the indictment include, among others: The killing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, including leading members of these groups; for example the killing of at least 144 people in Biljani (Ključ municipality), the killing of over 200 detainees at prison facilities in Foča, approximately 150 people at Keraterm camp, near Prijedor, and the killing of up to 140 detainees in Sušica camp, near Vlasenica, the detention of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in detention facilities in living conditions calculated to bring about their physical destruction. The facilities listed are Manjača camp (near Banja Luka), Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps (near Prijedor), prison facilities in Foča and Batković camp, near Bijeljina.
The killing of over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys of Srebrenica through both organised and opportunistic executions including the killing of over 1,000 men in a large warehouse in the village of Kravica and the execution of another 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men near the school in Orahovac. The wanton destruction of private and public property including cultural monuments and sacred sites, such as a number of mosques across the country. Acts of murder that formed part of the objective to spread terror among the civilian population of Sarajevo through a campaign of sniping and shelling carried out between 12 May 1992 and November 1995 including the shelling of “Markale” market on 5 February 1994, when 66 people were killed and over 140 wounded.
