Ratko Mladic: Summary of charges and excerpts from indictment

The transfer of Gen. Ratko Mladic to the Hague will take place after the completion of judicial proceedings required by Serbian law, the U.N.-backed war crimes court said on Thursday.

Under an indictment last amended in November 2009, the U.N. war crimes tribunal has filed these charges against former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic:

-- One count of genocide (in Srebrenica and elsewhere in Bosnia)

-- One count of complicity in genocide

-- One count of persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds, extermination, murder, deportation, crimes against humanity

-- One count of murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, taking of hostages, violation of the laws or customs of war

Excerpts from the U.N. war crimes tribunal indictment charging Gen. Ratko Mladic with genocide and crimes against humanity and violation of the laws or customs of war:

-- “Acting individually or in concert with other participants in a joint criminal enterprise (JCE) Mladic planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or execution of the intentional partial destruction of the Bosnian Muslim national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such, in Kljuc, Kotor Varos, Prijedor, Sanski Most and Srebrenica.”

-- “The destruction of these groups was effected by: the widespread killing, deportation and forcible transfer of non-Serbs in furtherance of the 1992 and 1993 “ethnic cleansing” campaigns in the Bosnian Krajina and in eastern Bosnia; by causing serious bodily or mental harm to Bosnian Muslims, including torture, physical and psychological abuse, sexual violence and beatings; and by subjecting Bosnian Muslims to conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, namely through cruel and inhumane treatment, including torture, inhumane living conditions and forced labor. These alleged crimes were variously committed in Banja Luka, Bosanska Krupa, Bratunac, Kljuc, Kotor Varos, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Srebrenica, Vlasenica and Zvornik.”

--”Mladic, acting individually or in concert with other JCE members, planned, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted a protracted military campaign in which Bosnian Serb forces under his control, in particular the Sarajevo Romanija Corps, used artillery and mortar shelling and sniping to target civilian areas of Sarajevo, killing and wounding civilians.”

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