Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic sentenced to life by The Hague court

The UN Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal in The Hague Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic, 75,  to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity between 1992 and 1995, during the Yugoslavia civil war. The court found Mladic guilty of “genocide and persecution, extermination, murder, and the inhumane act of forcible transfer in the area of Srebrenica in 1995,” during the breakup of Yugoslavia. His forces massacred some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the town, committing atrocities that were part of an “ethnic cleansing” campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina.