SUPPORT FOR SRPSKA AND SERBIA GOVERNMENTS TO HAVE GENERAL MLADIĆ TRANSFERRED TO SERBIA

PALE, AUGUST 21 /SRNA/ - The Republika Srpska Creators Association has expressed its support for Serbia and Republika Srpska governments’ efforts to enable General Ratko Mladić to return to Serbia.

The Association stresses that recent developments have proven that the years-long mistreatment of Mladić in The Hague continues, despite his serious health condition. "All medical grounds and the legal provisions contained in the UN Mandela Rules are not enough to awaken the conscience of the bureaucracy of the so-called Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and allow General Mladić and his family to bring this political and inhumane game to a dignified end, which is evidently being carried out at the behest of anti-Serb Western administrations," the Republika Srpska Creators Association announced. The Association said it stands in solidarity with the general's family and lawyers in their efforts to secure his release from the Hague detention facility. "We hope they will succeed," the Association said in a statement. The general's son, Darko Mladić, told SRNA that General Mladić is in the weakest condition he has ever been in and confirmed that a cardiologist from Serbia would examine the general today. The Hague is expected to provide the doctor with his medical records. Republika Srpska Justice Minister Goran Selak announced that Serbia’s Justice Minister Nenad Vujić would submit a new request to Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, asking that General Mladić be allowed to receive treatment in Serbia or Republika Srpska, given his extremely serious health condition. General Mladić has been in the detention hospital in The Hague since 2024, where he is receiving palliative care. The Mechanism has repeatedly rejected requests for his temporary release for medical treatment in Serbia.