Bosnia's former Serb military general Ratko Mladic has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Court for the massacre of about eight thousand Muslims.

During the Bosnia war that took place nearly two decades ago, Mladic led the war. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), hearing the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during this period, recognized 74-year-old Mladic's crime as 'one of the most dubious crimes in human history'.

Serb leader Radovan Karadzik and President of Serbia Slobodan Milosev was also sued for excesses during the Bosnia-Serb war that ran from 1992 to 1995. ICTY had sentenced Karadzik to 40 years in year 2016. Milosevic died in prison in 2006.

During the hearing of the trial in 2011, Mladic said, "I am General Ratsko Mladic. The whole world knows me ... I am here to defend my country and my people, not Ratko Mladic."

The court convicted Mladic for killing eight thousand unarmed Muslim children and adults. The army of Mladic gathered innocent people in the city of Srebrenica and threw them with bullets and tranks. Mladic had escaped arrest for nearly two decades. He was arrested in Serbia in 2011.

In the referendum held in 1992, Bosnian Muslims and Croatian citizens voted in favor of independence. At the same time, Serbian citizens voted against it.

Faced with the vote in favor of freedom, the Serb army resorted to inhuman and violent repression to suppress the opposition, which led by Paradamilitary led by Mladic.

According to the United Nations, during this time thousands of people were killed and around 2,200 houses were burnt down. Mladic had also created a video of the persecution of Muslims during the occupation of Srebrenica.

According to the international court, about eight thousand people were killed in a planned manner in 12 th July 1995 in those killed during this period. In the video footage linked to that atrocity, Mladic appears to claim against the 'Turks' claim to give 'gifts' of freedom to 'Serbs'.

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