Ex-Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic dead at 84
The former Bosnian Serb general was convicted of genocide committed during the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
Ratko Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb military leader, passed away at the age of 84 after battling multiple strokes in a prison hospital in The Hague, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS. He had been serving a life sentence for war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia convicted Mladic of crimes against humanity and genocide in 2017, a verdict affirmed on appeal in 2021.
Mladic was found guilty for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where approximately 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed, making it the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II. The Bosnian Serb forces under Mladic's command also perpetrated other atrocities, including the siege of Sarajevo and the operation of detention camps for non-Serbs and enemy soldiers.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed solidarity with the victims and their families, emphasizing the gravity of Mladic's crimes.
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