The 1995 slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of a war seeking the “ethnic cleansing” of non-Serbs from Bosnia to create a Greater Serbia.

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