Mladic war crimes trial resumes on Mon.

The 70-year-old former Bosnian Serb general was rushed to a hospital in The Hague on Thursday, the fourth day of his trial, after he complained about feeling ill.

“Ratko Mladic has returned to the Detention Unit after medical examinations confirmed there were no abnormalities in his health status and that no treatment is required,” Nerma Jelacic, spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said in a statement issued on Friday, Reuters reported.

“The previous determination that Mladic is fit to stand trial therefore remains unchanged,” she added.

Mladic was arrested in Serbia in May 2011. Despite overwhelming evidence, his defense attorney plans to argue that the massacre never occurred.

At the start of the Bosnian War in 1992, Srebrenica was a majority Muslim town in a part of Bosnia ruled by the Bosnian Serb “Republika Srpska.” On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, separated women and young children from men and older boys, and then systematically executed 8,372 men and boys and buried them in mass graves.

It was Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.

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