On 22 November 2017, the ICTY convicted Ratko Mladić—wartime commander of the Army of the Republika Srpska—on multiple counts, including genocide (Srebrenica), crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The judgment drew on years of evidentiary work: military documentation, survivor testimony, intercepted communications, and forensic findings from mass‑grave investigations. It also reinforced doctrines of command responsibility and accountability for siege and terror tactics used against civilians.
This entry captures the tribunal outcome and why it mattered for the wider Balkan accountability record.