Ratko Mladic plotted to "raze Sarajevo to the ground" unless he could divide the city along ethnic lines as he orchestrated a three-and-a-half year "terror campaign" that left thousands dead, the trial heard.
The 'Momo' and 'Uzeir' towers burn on Sniper Alley in downtown Sarajevo as heavy shellings and fightings raged throughout the Bosnian capital in 1992 Photo: GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images
UN prosecutors have accused the former general of responsibility for the 44-month siege of Bosnia's capital, between 1992 and 1995, during which up to 10,000 civilians were killed by Serb forces using snipers, artillery and mortar fire. "There can be no doubt that Mladic controlled the shelling of Sarajevo," said Dermot Groome, the UN prosecutor. "Mladic participated in a campaign of sniping and shelling against the besieged city of Sarajevo in order to spread terror among its civilian population."
He said that Mladic's personal notebooks would be shown in evidence to prove that he and Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president, planned the siege of Sarajevo as key part of their ethnic cleansing strategy. One command, written in the notebooks and agreed by the pair, said: "Sarajevo must either be divided or razed to the ground."
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