This pic of a starving Bosnian concentration camp survivor shocked the world in 1992… today he watched Ratko Mladic caged for life
A BOSNIAN concentration camp survivor who became became a symbol of the suffering of the country's Muslims during the war in 1992 says justice has been served after the man responsible was convicted.
Fikret Alic was featured in photos published in Time magazine in 1992, when thousands of Muslims were rounded up in the notorious camps by the Bosnian Serb troops.
Alic's skeletal figure behind a barbed wire shocked the world and raised international awareness of the war.
Today, after 25 years, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military chief who ordered the killing of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica was jailed for war crimes.
The 74-year-old – dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" – was blamed for the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II during the country's 1990s conflict.
Alic said: "Justice has won, and the war criminal has been convicted."
He added the verdict "means that the example will help prevent war crimes in the future".
Alic was in The Hague, Netherlands, as UN judges declared Mladic guilty of genocide and other crimes and sentenced him to life in prison.
His crimes include the deadly three-year siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern enclave of Srebrenica.
The slaughter in Srebrenica was Europe's worst mass killing since World War II.
A three-judge panel at the court formally known as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia convicted Mladic of 10 of 11 counts in a dramatic climax.
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Presiding Judge Alphons Orie read out the judgment on November 22, after ordering Mladic out of the courtroom for the final verdict over an angry outburst.
Mothers of Srebrenica's victims clapped when the convictions were read out.
Mladic's son Darko said: "I'm not surprised. The court was totally biased from the start."