Convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic has reportedly suffered a minor stroke and is in declining health while serving a life sentence in The Hague, his son said Wednesday.
Mladic was sentenced by a U.N. tribunal to life imprisonment in 2017 over genocide and war crimes during Bosnia's 1990s war.
Bosnian Serb wartime military commander, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," was found guilty notably for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, deemed genocide by international justice.
On Wednesday, his son Darko Mladic told RTRS television that he had received initial information on his father's health on Friday, when contacted by a U.N.-authorized doctor.
"She briefly explained that they believe it was a silent (minor) stroke, that he had been taken to a civilian hospital, and returned (to prison) after scans and examinations," he said.
