Convicted genocidal warlord Ratko Mladić dies while serving life sentence
BOSNIA (CNN)–Ratko Mladić, 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 “Butcher of Bosnia,” Mladić was convicted in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for masterminding a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnia’s 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 Mladić’s indictment, ICTY Judge Fouad Riad described the actions the former general oversaw as “unimaginable savagery.” Mladić died while serving a life sentence at the UN Detention Unit in The Hague, his lawyer Dragan Ivetić told CNN. He spent just over 15 years in prison.
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It was the tribunal’s last major case, and it included harrowing testimonies from hundreds of witnesses. When the former Serbian president was arrested in 2001, Mladić went into hiding, eluding authorities for another decade. They asked for an early release on humanitarian grounds, quoting the detention unit’s doctors as saying that his “overall condition has rapidly declined” and warning that his death “may occur at any time.” The request was denied.
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BOSNIA (CNN)–Ratko Mladić, 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 “Butcher of Bosnia,” Mladić was convicted in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for masterminding a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnia’s 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 Mladić’s indictment, ICTY Judge Fouad Riad described the actions the former general oversaw as “unimaginable savagery.” Mladić died while serving a life sentence at the UN Detention Unit in The Hague, his lawyer Dragan Ivetić told CNN. He spent just over 15 years in prison.
