The monstrous crimes of Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of Bosnia'
The Bosnian Serb commander led a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian conflict.
Ratko Mladić, who passed away at the age of 84, was known as the Butcher of Bosnia. As the Commander of the Bosnian Serb army, he directed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing during the fragmentation of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The phrase "Butcher of Bosnia" served as a grim euphemism for the massacre of tens of thousands of men, women, and children as he pursued his vision of Greater Serbia. His obsession with this goal led to some of the most horrific atrocities Europe had seen since Hitler's Third Reich.
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