Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been jailed for life for genocide and other atrocities in the 1990s Bosnian war, BBC reports. Known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, Mladic led forces during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 and siege of Sarajevo in which more than 10,000 died. The UN tribunal in The Hague convicted him on 10 of the 11 charges.

Mladic, 74, was not in court when the sentence was read out. He had been removed for shouting at the judges. The judges had rejected a request by his lawyer to halt proceedings because of Mladic’s high blood pressure.

Mladic had been on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 2012. His case is the court’s last.

The massacre in Srebrenica left more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys dead, while more than 10,000 people died during the siege of Sarajevo.

At the end of the war in 1995 he went into hiding and lived in obscurity in Serbia, protected by family and elements of the security forces. He was indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity but evaded justice for 16 years. He was finally tracked down and arrested at a cousin’s house in rural northern Serbia in 2011.

At the start of the session, Mladic appeared relaxed, smiling and gesturing to the cameras. The verdict was watched by victims and their relatives in a memorial centre near Srebrenica, and followed by dozens of people who gathered outside the courtroom, carrying pictures of those who died or were still missing.