"I want justice, and justice would be life imprisonment" for Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic, says Ajsa Umirovic, who lost 42 relatives in the Srebrenica massacre, the worst in Europe since World War II.
She is among many Bosnian Muslims who have long waited for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to deliver its judgement for Mladic, due later Wednesday.
But even if Mladic, widely known as the "butcher of Bosnia", were to spend the rest of his days behind bars, she says, it would not be enough to atone for the murder in Srebrenica by his forces of 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in July 1995.
Mladic has always denied charges that he ordered the massacre, already deemed genocide by the international courts.
To Umirovic however, there is no doubt he was behind it. "Even if he lives 1,000 times and is sentenced 1,000 times to life in prison, justice would still not be served," she says.
She, like most Bosnian Muslims, also blames Mladic for the Sarajevo seige, another of the darkest episodes of the 1990s inter-ethnic conflict that killed more than 100,000 people.
- 'Too late' -
In the village of Potocari near Srebrenica, home to a centre commemorating the victims killed in nearby woods and hills, Umirovic joins crowds of people gathered round three giant screens to watch Wednesday's hearing live.
"Look there," the 54-year-old says as she points to thousands of white tombstones that are a grim reminder of the massacre. "He should get life in prison even it's just for one single family."
As the hearing began Wednesday morning, some of the women watching the proceedings on the screens began to cry. One woman prayed as others cursed when Mladic appeared on the screen.
A short drive away in the town of Bratunac, a woman in her 60s dressed in black from head to toe, said Mladic should be "punished for the genocide in Srebrenica, and for crimes in Prijedor (in northwestern Bosnia), Sarajevo and the whole country".
But not everyone in Bratunac agreed, with several posters seen across the town showing Mladic in uniform. "You are our hero," read the slogans.
In Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital, the facades of many buildings still bear the traces of shells and bullets fired during the 44-month-long siege that ran from 1992 to 1995.
More than 10,000 people, including 1,500 children, were killed in the siege by shells and sniper bullets fired by Mladic's forces.
Markale market, where dozens of people were killed in shelling in February 1994 and August 1995, was open for business Wednesday.
The victims' names were inscribed on a red wall of a building in the area.
"If it were up to me I would hang him, since I suffered like no one else, I cannot even talk about it," said a woman selling parsnips who refused to give her name.
However for Safet Kolic, who sells clothes, "this verdict comes too late".
He believes Mladic "destroyed one people by making them commit genocide, and another by making them suffer genocide."
- 'A legend for Serbs' -
But in Pale, a stronghold of Mladic's wartime ally Radovan Karadzic -- whom the ICTY sentenced to 40 years in jail for genocide and other war crimes -- views are wildly different.
Robert Stosic, 47, believes Mladic should have "taken power and founded a state" for Bosnian Serbs, "ruled by Serbs and with rights for the others."
Late Tuesday, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said: "Whatever the verdict ... Ratko Mladic remains a legend for the Serb people."
"He (Mladic) was condemned even before he arrived in The Hague," says Neven Krunic, a 61-year-old man.
Mladic, 74, was charged for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 1992-1995 war.
He was arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run.
