• Ratko Mladi-c, the rCyButcher of Bosnia,rCO 84

    From s|b@me@privacy.invalid to alt.obituaries on Thu Aug 27 18:16:19 2026
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    Good riddance!

    <https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/europe/ratko-mladic-bosnian-serb-dead-intl>

    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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  • From Louis Epstein@le@lekno.ws to alt.obituaries on Fri Aug 28 02:23:35 2026
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    s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
    Good riddance!

    <https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/europe/ratko-mladic-bosnian-serb-dead-intl>

    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.

    Sounds like the kind of mentality that would earn commendations
    in the Trump/Hegseth Department of "War".

    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.

    A life sentence is a life sentence,
    not an until-really-sick sentence.

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    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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