'Mladic fit to face intl justice

BELGRADE (AFP) - A judge ruled Friday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court. The ruling came amid pleas from Mladic's family that he was too ill to be transferred to the UN court in The Hague and that he was not guilty of organising the Srebrenica massacre - the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II - and the 44-month siege of Sarajevo. "It has been established that Ratko Mladic's health condition makes him fit to stand trial ... We have decided the conditions for transfer have been met," Judge Maja Kovacevic told reporters outside Serbia's special war crimes court.

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