Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports
The former Bosnian Serb commander died after years of declining health and repeated hospitalizations, while his conviction for genocide and war crimes remained in force.
- On Thursday, Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic died in a United Nations detention centre in The Hague, Serbian broadcaster Informer TV reported. He was serving a life sentence for genocide.
- Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," Mladic was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for masterminding the Srebrenica massacre, where he was responsible for killing around 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
- The former general had been in the United Nations detention centre since 2011 and suffered from ill health for years. Earlier this year, his defense team requested release, citing "advanced, irreversible medical decline."
- Serbian public broadcaster RTS confirmed the death to Reuters through his lawyer. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia labeled his crimes as some of the "most heinous" in human history.
- Mladic orchestrated the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. His death concludes legal proceedings for one of the primary figures responsible for the region's violent ethnic conflicts.
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Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general who became feared as the “Butcher of the Balkans” after his forces besieged the Bosnian capital in the 1990s and carried out Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, has died. He was 84. The post Butcher Of The Balkans’ Ratko Mladic Dies At 84 (Worthy News In-Depth) appeared first on Worthy Christian News.
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The Bosnian-Serbian ex-General Ratko Mladić, notorious as 'Srebrenica' butcher, died on Thursday in the United Nations prison in The Hague at the age of 83.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief and war criminal Ratko Mladic, sentenced to life imprisonment by international justice and nicknamed The Bosnian butcher for his role in the Srebrenica massacre, died yesterday at the age of 84 in The Hague. The death was confirmed by the residual international mechanism of the United Nations criminal courts in The Hague, after adding that the Uruguayan judge Graciela Gatti Santana ordered “a thorough investiga…
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