FILE PHOTO: Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic in Belgrade, Serbia, May 1993. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/File Photo
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - In the 1990s he was the burly, brash general leading nationalist Bosnian Serbs towards a seemingly sweeping victory in Bosnia's war. Two decades later, he was reduced to an ailing old man trying in vain to delay judgment for genocide in a U.N. court.
On Wednesday, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Ratko Mladic, 74, in one of the highest profile war crimes cases since the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials of Germany's Nazi leadership.
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