Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died. Mladic, 84, the so-called “butcher of Bosnia”, died at a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, the UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed on Thursday.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died.
- Fact 2: Mladic, 84, the so-called “butcher of Bosnia”, died at a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, the UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed on Thursday.
- Fact 3: Bosnia’s war, 30 years on: How did the atrocities happen?
- Fact 4: Mladic was convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men in a UN-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, in Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died. Mladic, 84, the so-called “butcher of Bosnia”, died at a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, the UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed on Thursday.
Bosnia’s war, 30 years on: How did the atrocities happen? How Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic sees the world UN court denies Mladic, who led Bosnia’s Srebrenica genocide, early release “Mladic passed away today while hospitalised in The Hague,” said the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, adding that judge Graciela Gatti Santana had ordered “a full inquiry into the circumstances” of his death. A family member of Mladic confirmed the reports of his death earlier in the day and told The Associated Press that Mladic’s son, Darko Mladic, was on his way to The Hague.
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