Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide Bosnian Serb army commander Gen Ratko Mladić addresses his troops in the eastern Bosnian town of Vlasenica in December 1995. Photograph: Oleg Stjepanovic/AP Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in The Hague. Mladić had been one of the main architects of the pol

Written by Paola Gaeta Photo credit: https://www.ejiltalk.org/intent-to-destroy-reflections-on-the-swedish-yazidi-genocide-case/ Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual precision that leaves little space for abstraction. The Stockholm District Court ’s account of the attacks on Sinjar and the subsequent treatment of Yazidi