In a reaction to his life sentence yesterday, Ratko Mladic, 74, shouted at the international court in the Hague, angry at the decision and was subsequently removed from the courtroom. Arrested in May of 2011, Mladic, was one of the last men to face charges of crimes against humanity in the bloody Balkan war of the 1990s, specifically for the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Of the four men arrested on the same charges, Mladic is the second and last to be sentenced, after Karadzic. Milosevic and Hadzic were also tried but never convicted. Milosevic suffered a heart attack and died in 2006, while the trial was ongoing. Hadzic's trial procedures were abandoned when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in November of 2014; he died of it in Serbia in July of 2016.
Justice can never be served to those who perished or to their surviving families, but accountability must be an iron rule of law for everyone. International courts are there to enforce that rule and provide the most accurate approximation to a just and fair outcome.
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