Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports
- On Thursday, Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic died in a United Nations detention centre in The Hague, Serbian broadcaster Informer TV reported. He was serving a life sentence for genocide.
- Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," Mladic was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for masterminding the Srebrenica massacre, where he was responsible for killing around 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
- The former general had been in the United Nations detention centre since 2011 and suffered from ill health for years. Earlier this year, his defense team requested release, citing "advanced, irreversible medical decline."
- Serbian public broadcaster RTS confirmed the death to Reuters through his lawyer. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia labeled his crimes as some of the "most heinous" in human history.
- Mladic orchestrated the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. His death concludes legal proceedings for one of the primary figures responsible for the region's violent ethnic conflicts.
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The man sentenced to life imprisonment by international justice, mainly for the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, died at the age of 84 in the United Nations detention center in The Hague.
The former Bosnian-Serbian army chief and war criminal Ratko Mladic died at the age of 84. He suffered several strokes, reported the Serbian state broadcaster RTS on Thursday. His lawyer had still requested that Mladic be released from prison in May. However, this had been rejected by the International Criminal Court Mechanism in The Hague. Mladic served a life sentence at the UN prison in The Hague (Netherlands). He was arrested in 2011 after 1…
General Ratko Mladi died, the Bosnian Serb commander sentenced to life in the Hague for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Former Bosnian-Serbian army chief Ratko Mladic died, and Mladic, convicted of war crimes, died in a UN prison in The Hague, according to media reports.
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