Onder zijn leiding werden in 1995 bij de moslimenclave Srebrenica bijna 8400 mannen doodgeschoten. Nederlandse VN-militairen slaagden er niet in de enclave te beschermen.

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