'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic dies nine years after he was convicted for genocide including notorious massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys
- Posted on August 27, 2026
- By Daily Mail
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of orchestrating one of Europe's deadliest genocides, has passed away at age 78 while serving a life sentence at the International Criminal Court detention facility. His death concludes a controversial legal chapter spanning decades, marked by his 2017 conviction for crimes against humanity and the systematic massacre of Srebrenica's Muslim population during the 1990s Balkan conflict.
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'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic dies nine years after he was convicted for genocide including notorious massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys
Mladic, who had suffered several strokes in recent months, was serving a life sentence in The Hague for genocide, war crimes.
