GENERAL MLADIĆ'S HEALTH IS STILL DIFFICULT, HE SPENT HOLIDAYS IN BED

BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The health condition of General Ratko Mladić, who has been in the detention hospital in Scheveningen in the Hague since April last year, is still serious and is still in a wheelchair and tied to the bed where he spent the past holidays, his son Darko Mladić told SRNA.

"There is nothing new, there are no changes, neither for the better nor for the worse. He is still tied to the bed, he is in a wheelchair. It is a difficult situation," said Darko. He said that the general has the same neurological, cardiovascular and urological problems as before. Darko reminded that on December 9, the general was visited by a neuropsychiatrist from Serbia, when she stated that the condition had not changed. When asked if the defense would submit a new request for General Mladić to be treated at liberty, Darko said that he could not speak concretely and comment on these matters in advance, but that everything possible was being done for him. General Ratko Mladić has been in a detention hospital in The Hague since April of last year, and due to his poor health, his family and defense attorneys have repeatedly requested that he be given medical treatment in freedom, but these requests have been rejected. The former commander of the Main Staff of the Republika Srpska Army was operated on on January 8 last year in a Dutch hospital, when a pacemaker was implanted in him, and in the meantime his kidneys had failed. General Mladić, who was the commander of the Main Staff of the Republika Srpska Army, was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2021. for alleged crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.