Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died in prison in The Hague while serving a life sentence, a UN official and his lawyer confirmed. Reports differ on whether he was 83 or 84.
NPR – World The ruthless former communist officer-turned-nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of a war that left more than 100,000 people dead. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims.
NPR – World The ruthless former communist officer-turned-nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of a war that left more than 100,000 people dead. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims.
Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in the Hague, a UN official and his lawyer confirmed. Mladić, 84, had been one of the main architects of the policy of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. He…
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NYTimes – World A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II.
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