Mladic's Health Check: U.N. Court Weighs Early Release

0:00It's April 28th. You're listening to Global News Today, AI-powered coverage from around the world. I'm Cory with the story. The UN War Crimes Court in the Hague just ordered an independent medical check on 84-year-old Racko Melodic, the Bosnian Serb General. Serving life for genocide and crimes against humanity from the 1992 to 95 Bosnian War. He's locked up in their detention unit and filed for early release on humanitarian grounds, claiming advanced health decline after a recent medical incident. That incident hit earlier this month, sending him to the emergency room, though details got redacted in the core papers. Melodic deals with cognitive issues and his needed hospital stays multiple times lately. Back in the day, he commanded Bosnian Serb forces during Yugoslavia's brutal breakup, convicted for terrorizing Sarajevo civilians and the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. Their ruling said his health was shaky but stable and handled well in detention, yet

1:01now a judge wants a full report by May 1st on his current state, life expectancy and care quality there. This could shift things fast as they dig deeper into whether he's fit for release or needs to stay put.