What are the Mistakes of These Two People?

Ratko Mladic, as a leader of military operations, knew that his troops were carrying out shooting operations and spreading terror and murder on civilians with the intention of exterminating the Bosnian Muslim population in Srebrenica and Sarajevo. Mladic is also known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for the war crimes he committed and hid after the end of the 1995 war and did not take responsibility for his actions.

The UN War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia ruled that the former Bosnian Serb military leader had committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Meanwhile, in the case of Radovan Karadzic, he was a superior, namely the political leader of the government Serbia in Bosnia whose power included commanding the military forces of the Serbian government in Bosnia and had the power to appoint, promote and dismiss military officials who had committed war crimes and he was found guilty of the war crimes he committed in March 2016 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

In conclusion, based on the power and authority that they both had, they knew of crimes committed by their subordinates who were involved or would be involved in crimes. However, they did not use their authority and power at all to prevent, prosecute or punish the perpetrators for these criminal acts.