Life sentence handed down to Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army general and chief commander of Bosnian Serb forces in the 1992-95 Bosnian War, was upheld on Tuesday by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), confirming the first instance verdict.

Mladic, who was arrested in Serbia and extradited to The Hague in 2011, was eventually found guilty of 10 out of 11 counts of war crimes and was sentenced to life in prison in November 2017. But both defense and prosecutors appealed the original verdict.

The verdict with which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the IRMCT as its legal successor brought to an end their last case related to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday was delivered by a trial chamber chaired by Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe. The other members of the trial chamber are Aminatta Lois Runeni N’gums, Seymour Panton, Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya, and Mustapha El Baaj.

In the original trial, Mladic was found responsible for overseeing the murder of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995, event known as the Srebrenica genocide.

Trial judges had also found Mladic responsible for ethnic cleansing campaigns against Bosnian Muslims and Croats, as well as campaign of terrorizing civilians in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo during its 43-month siege by Bosnian Serb forces, which was all part of a plan to forge a “Greater Serbia” out of parts of the former Yugoslavia.

Mladic was cleared of one count of genocide charge committed in six Bosnian municipalities in 1992.