Published on
27/08/2026 - 15:16 GMT+2
Former Bosnian Serb military leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 84, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS.
Considered the most infamous war criminal in the Balkans, Mladić was dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War.
He was sentenced to life by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for turning large swathes of Bosnia into a bloodbath during the war in the 1990s.
