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Ratko Mladić died in The Hague while awaiting transfer for sentence completion
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Ratko Mladić died in The Hague while awaiting transfer for sentence completion

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

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

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News Named sources Outcome reported
  • Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military leader convicted of war crimes, died Monday in The Hague.
  • He was hospitalized at the time of his death, awaiting transfer to another country to serve the remainder of his sentence.
  • The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals confirmed his death.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladić died Monday while hospitalized in The Hague, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) confirmed. Mladić was serving a life sentence for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed during the Bosnian War.

At the time of his death, Mladić was awaiting transfer to another country to complete his sentence. The IRMCT, the successor to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), did not immediately provide further details on the cause of death or the specific country he was to be transferred to.

Mladić was convicted in 2017 by the ICTY for his role in the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities. His conviction was upheld on appeal in 2018. The trial and subsequent appeals were closely watched as a key moment in the pursuit of justice for victims of the Bosnian War.

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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. 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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