Why We Need Monsters Like Mladić

There was ever going to be only one verdict for General Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, at the UN Tribunal at The Hague. Sentenced to life imprisonment primarily for his role in the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica in July 1995, one of the worst and most shameful episodes of barbarity in post-war Europe.“He is definitely the personification of evil for many, many survivors and victims” the ICTY chief prosecutor, said Serge Brammertz, on the eve of the verd