Ratko Mladić, Bosnian wartime leader, dies at 85
The former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radko Mladić, convicted of war crimes and genocide, has died at the age of 85 while serving a life sentence in The Hague. Mladić was responsible for widespread massacres during the Bosnian War, notably the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, which claimed the lives of over 8,000 people. After years in hiding, he was arrested in 2011 and handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal. In 2017, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, including genocide and persecution, as well as for leading a military campaign that resulted in the killing, torture, and displacement of thousands of civilians. His health deteriorated in recent years, and his family requested his transfer to Belgrade to spend his final days there, but he passed away inside his prison in The Hague.
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