Stroke for the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, war criminal Ratko Mladic “very serious”.

Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladicdetained in The Hague where he is serving a life sentence, he would have had a stroke and his health conditions would be delicatehis son said on Bosnian Serb public television. Mladic was sentenced tolife sentence by a United Nations tribunal in 2017 for genocide and war crimes during the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The wartime Bosnian Serb military commander, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”was found guilty in particular for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed, an event that international justice has recognized as genocide.

His son Darko Mladic told RTRS television that he received the first information about his father’s health on Friday, after being contacted by a UN-authorized doctor who explained “that they believe it was a silent stroke, that he had been taken to a civilian hospital and then returned (to prison) after scans and tests.”

According to Darko Mladic, his father’s condition is worsening daily. “The situation is very serious“. The family is still waiting for medical documentation from The Hague so that Serbian doctors can examine what happened, he said. “There is no reason why they won’t give it to us… These are his fundamental rights,” he stressed. The family hopes that Mladic, 83 years old according to UN court documents, can be allowed to receive treatment in Serbia, his son added.