Bosnian War: Ratko Mladic, the "Butcher of Srebrenica", is dead
To his victims he represented pure evil. But many Serbs still glorify him today. The Serbian general Ratko Mladic, sentenced to life imprisonment, is now dead.
Ratko Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb 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, mostly men and boys, were killed in July 1995. Mladic was also convicted of other atrocities committed during the Bosnian War, including the siege of Sarajevo, which killed over 11,000 people. He was 78 years old and had been in poor health.
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