The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced General Ratko Mladic to life in prison for genocide and other atrocities in the 1990s Bosnian war, BBC reported.

He was found guilty on ten of the eleven counts.

According to the 2nd count, the ICTY convicted Ratko Mladic of the genocide of Muslims in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina where more than 7,000 Bosnian men and boys were murdered.

According to the 11th count, the ICTY convicted Ratko Mladic of violations of the laws or customs of war under the Geneva Convention for taking UN staff as hostages in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995 .

Bosnian Serb forces captured more than 200 UN observers and peacekeepers in various locations, including Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Pale, and Gorazde, and take them hostage in strategically important locations between 26 May and 19 June 1995 to prevent NATO air strikes.

The third countries, including the leaders of NATO and the UN, were threatened that further attacks by NATO on the military targets of the Bosnian Serbs would cause injuries, deaths or hostages. Some of the captured observers were attacked and harassed. The hostages were gradually released from 3 to 19 June 1995.