The appeal of the Bosnian Serb former general Ratko Mladic will be heard in August. The sessions are scheduled for August 25 and 26.
The former army chief was sentenced to life in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Srebrenica. Mladic, 77, appealed that ruling. Because of his ill health, that case was postponed several times.
The appeal is still due next month. It is unclear whether Mladic will attend his trial. The International Criminal Tribunal Residual Mechanism, which has taken over the duties from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has provided that the former military officer has ten minutes of speaking time.
In 2017, he had to be removed from court for scolding and shouting at the hearing. Mladic was convicted of the Srebrenica massacre. There, in July 1995, his troops killed thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
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