U.N. rights chief and genocide prevention adviser welcome Mladic conviction

Fatma Aktas, director of Avrasya foundation Holland, holds a sign ahead of the final judgment of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic in his appeal judgement at the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday that a ruling upholding the conviction of former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic for genocide and war crimes meant the international justice system had held him to account.

United Nations war crimes judges in The Hague upheld a life sentence for Mladic, who led Bosnian Serb forces during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, rejecting all grounds of his appeal.