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'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic dies in hospital
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'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic dies in hospital

From Utusan Malaysia · () Malay

Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News From a news agency Outcome reported
  • Ratko Mladic, convicted of war crimes for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died in a hospital.
  • Mladic was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
  • He was the Bosnian Serb army chief who led the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst bloodshed since World War II.

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief infamously known as the 'Butcher of Bosnia,' has died. The United Nations international tribunal confirmed his death in a hospital on Thursday. Mladic was serving a life sentence in The Hague, Netherlands, following his conviction for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

His conviction stemmed from his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, an event that marked the worst bloodshed in Europe since the end of World War II. The brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, which raged from 1992 to 1995, resulted in approximately 100,000 deaths and displaced 2.2 million people.

Mladic was a central military figure alongside Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, and Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, in the brutal war. Despite recent appeals from Serbian government officials and Mladic's family for his release due to deteriorating health, the tribunal in The Hague rejected these requests.

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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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