Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb warlord, dies in prison at 84
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted of war crimes and genocide, has died in prison at age 84. He was serving a life sentence for his role in the 1990s Bosnian War, including the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre.
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Mladic's death marks the end of a significant chapter in international criminal justice regarding the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.
Mladic died at a hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, U.N. court officials said. A Mladic relative who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation confirmed the reports and said Mladic’s son, Darko Mladic, was on his way to the Dutch city.
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