Saturday, 7 february 2026.
Ratko Mladic: Genocidal Criminal or Innocent Protector?
During a four-year trial, the Hague Tribunal has heard powerful and strongly-contested arguments about whether Ratko Mladic is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity or whether he simply defended...
Facing Up to Mladic After Surviving a Massacre
Grgo Stojic is the only victim of a wartime massacre in the Bosnian village of Skrljevita who survived to testify against former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic in the...
‘We Believed Mladic When He Said We’d Be Safe’
When Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who faces judgment this week, met frightened Bosniaks after his forces took Srebrenica in 1995, he told them they wouldn’t be harmed -...
How Ratko Mladic ‘Blew Sarajevo’s Mind’
“Don’t let them sleep at all.
Hague Tribunal and Serbs Spent €2m on Mladic Trial
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence team, plus his relatives’ visits to the detention unit and financial aid to him personally, have cost the Hague Tribunal, the Bosnian...
By Hiding Mladic, Serbia ‘Fostered Culture of Denial’
Author Julian Borger argues that because Serbia was not penalised for shielding Ratko Mladic while he was on the run, it helped foster a culture of denial of war crimes...
Mladic Wanted to Use Trial to ‘Defend the Serbs’
After his arrest, Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic told his lawyers not to waste time defending him, but instead to defend the “Serb army and people”, defence team member...
Ratko Mladic’s Fugitive Years Cloaked in Secrets and Lies
During 16 years on the run, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic was aided by Serbian officers, his Bosnian comrades and his family - but Serbia seems determined to keep...
Ratko Mladic’s Son Expects Father’s Acquittal
Darko Mladic, the son of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, told BIRN that he believes that the Hague Tribunal will acquit his father next week and set him...
Bodybuilder’s Murder Highlights Mladic’s 1992 Genocide Charge
Yugoslav bodybuilding star Fikret Hodzic was a victim of the 1992 campaign of military persecution for which former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic faces judgment next week - but...
BIRN Publishes Ratko Mladic Trial E-Book
Ahead of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic’s war crimes verdict next week, BIRN has compiled all its reports on the landmark case into a free, downloadable e-book.
In Ratko Mladic’s Village, He’s an Innocent Man
The former Bosnian Serb commander’s relatives still live in the rural village where he was born and where a street is named after him - and they insist he was...