Mladic is 1 of 161 Indicted For Crimes in the Balkans Wars

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has announced its verdict against Ratko Mladić, who was commander of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) from 1992 until 1996. He was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

The court found him guilty of one of two counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity and four counts of violations of the laws or customs of war. The court argued the 75-year old was responsible for the genocide against muslim Bosnians in Srebrenica in mid-July 1995, when 8,000 boys and men were killed.

So far, the special United Nations tribunal has indicted 161 persons in connection with crimes committed during the wars in former Yugoslavia. As the below infographic shows, trials against 155 people have been concluded. 84 defendants were sentenced. There is one case against six people still 6 open.