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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/bosnian-serb-general-ratko- mladic-has-died-un-official-says

Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies

The rCybutcher of BosniarCO died age 84 in a UN prison hospital in the Netherlands, the UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed.

By AFP, AP and Reuters
Published On 27 Aug 2026
27 Aug 2026
rUaFormer Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, rUawho was rUaserving a life sentence
for rCigenocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the bloody 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has rUadied.

Mladic, 84, the so-called rCLbutcher of BosniarCY, died at a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, the UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed
on Thursday.

rCLMladic passed away today while hospitalised in The Hague,rCY said the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, adding that judge Graciela Gatti Santana had ordered rCLa full inquiry into the circumstancesrCY of his death.

A family member of Mladic confirmed the reports of his death earlier in
the day and told The Associated Press that MladicrCOs son, Darko Mladic, was on his way to The Hague.

Mladic was convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least rCi8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men in a UN-designated rCLsafe
arearCY of Bosnia, in EuroperCOs worst atrocity since World War II.

He spent his last years in jail after he was convicted in 2017 for crimes
the tribunal said at the time were rCLamongst the most heinous known to humankindrCY.

Former UN rights chief Zeid RarCOad al-Hussein described him as rCLthe epitome of evilrCY after his conviction.

The former communist officer-turned nationalist warlord was one of the
most notorious figures of the conflict in which more than 100,000 people
were killed and more than two million were driven from their homes.

He commanded his troops to rCLscorch the brainsrCY of the Bosniaks and boasted of being a rCLSerbian godrCY.

When the Bosnian war started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country in an attempt to form a Serb mini-state.

Srebrenica
The killings, recognised as a genocide, were the culmination of a war that
had rUalasted at least three years, in which Mladic pounded Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machineguns of his
nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000 people.

The dead from Srebrenica were bulldozed into mass graves over four days in July 1995, some of them dug up and relocated to remote mountains in order
to hide evidence of the killings.

The goal, as determined by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for
the rUaformer Yugoslavia (ICTY), was rCLethnic cleansingrCY rCo the forcible expulsion of Bosniaks, Croats and other non-Serbs to clear Bosnian lands
for a Greater Serbia.

The tribunal found that Mladic, together with late Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic,
were part of a criminal conspiracy to implement the plan.

Defiant to the end, Mladic said, rCLI do not recognise this court,rCY at an ICTY hearing of his case in 2014.

When he was sentenced to life in prison rUain 2017 he shouted: rCLThis is all lies, you are all liars!rCY

Mladic death rCydoesnrCOt clear the mass gravesrCO
Despite MladicrCOs crimes, many Serbs continue to revere a military
commander who painted himself as a rCLsimple manrCY whom fate had chosen to protect his people.

Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik reacted to MladicrCOs death saying: rCLIt is a murder. He was respected by Serbian people. As a
commander rCihe stood to defend Serbs.rCY

Remir Suljagic, the head of the Srebrenica memorial, however said it is important to remember MladicrCOs victims and not glorify him after his
death.

rCLIt doesnrCOt bring back the dead. It doesnrCOt clear mass graves. It does not
rCichange judgments. It does not turn the criminal into a historical figure.rCY
Suljagic said.

Kada HoticrCOs husband and son were killed by Serb forces in 1995. They were 56 and 29 at the time.

The 82-year-old told Reuters that justice has been served because Mladic
died in prison. rCLI am grateful to the Tribunal because it sentenced rUaMladic
to life and has not released him. He died rUain disgrace, because he killed
so many people.rCY





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