Auschwitz survivors have greeted the verdict against former General Mladic with great satisfaction and sympathy for the victims. They have welcomed the judgement of the UN War Crimes Tribunal against him on the counts of genocide in Srebrenica, on expulsion, mass killings and war crimes.

Commenting on the verdict in Berlin, Christoph Heubner, the Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:

“Simply the existence of the UN War Crimes Tribunal provides proof to the Auschwitz survivors of mankind’s ability to learn and the will of the world to ensure that people who commit genocide and brutally persecute other human beings can no longer escape justice. Even the fact that the verdict has been passed 22 years after the crimes and genocide in Srebrenica is seen by the Auschwitz survivors as encouraging: they themselves have had to wait far longer, and very frequently in vain, for the crimes of Auschwitz to be met with justice. Today’s verdict will hopefully etch Auschwitz and Srebrenica as a warning into the memory of the world. It also turns the world’s gaze to the current situation in Myanmar, where the Rohingya people are being bloodily persecuted and expelled at this very moment.”