Balkans: Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladic is dead
He was one of the main perpetrators of the atrocities committed during the Bosnian War and was known as the "Butcher of the Balkans". Now the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, has died.
Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb former general convicted of war crimes, has died in a prison hospital in the Netherlands. He was serving a life sentence for his role in the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000 people, mainly men and boys, were killed in July 1995. Mladic was the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Bosnian War and was found guilty of numerous war crimes, including the massacre, by the UN tribunal in The Hague.
His death was confirmed by a senior UN representative. The cause of death is still being investigated.
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