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Ratko Mladi-c, the Bosnian-Serb general who orchestrated the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars, has died in
prison aged 84.
Known as the rCLButcher of Bosnia,rCY Mladi-c was convicted in 2017 by
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for masterminding a campaign of ethnic cleansing against BosniarCOs non-Serb population in the early 1990s.
The UN-established court found him guilty of genocide, crimes against
humanity, persecution, extermination, murder, terror, unlawful attacks
on civilians and hostage-taking.
At the time of Mladi-crCOs indictment, ICTY Judge Fouad Riad described
the actions the former general oversaw as rCLunimaginable savagery.rCY
Mladi-c died while serving a life sentence at the UN Detention Unit in
The Hague, his lawyer Dragan Iveti-c told CNN. He spent just over 15
years in prison.
Following his conviction, Mladi-c made multiple appeals and requests for release on medical grounds. The last of these was filed by his lawyers
just last week.
They asked for an early release on humanitarian grounds, quoting the
detention unitrCOs doctors as saying that his rCLoverall condition has
rapidly declinedrCY and warning that his death rCLmay occur at any
time.rCY The request was denied.
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