Former general, nicknamed the Butcher of Bosnia, was convicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslims in 1995

Mladic oversaw the killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a UN-designated “safe area” in Srebenica in 1995.

Wartime commander was serving life sentence for Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo; reports say he died in a UN prison hospital in The Hague

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