The health condition of Ratko
Mladic, the former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs held in
the Hague Tribunal prison where he is serving a life sentence
for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the
Bosnian War, has deteriorated further.
As his son Darko said today, the general now has severe
kidney problems due, according to him, to mistakes by local
doctors in The Hague. The situation, he underlined, is that now
his father cannot get out of bed due to extreme weakness, and,
according to Darko Mladic, the problem is such that in The
Hague, his father cannot receive all the care necessary for his
possible recovery.
Hague Tribunal judges, he said, rejected Ratko Mladic's
request for a transfer to Serbia to be treated appropriately.
"They rejected our request; only one judge said in favor, and
all the others were against it. The explanation is that Mladic's
condition is quite good and that there is no need for his
transfer to Serbia," said the general's son, quoted by the media
in Belgrade. In his view, doctors in The Hague misjudged his
father's health problems by giving him too many diuretics,
thereby causing severe kidney damage.
Ratko Mladic, who is 82, was convicted of crimes committed in
the 1992-1995 armed conflict in Bosnia, particularly the siege
of Sarajevo and the genocide in Srebrenica.
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