Er sei zum Schutz Jugoslawiens und aller seiner Völker Offizier geworden, sagte Mladic vor dem Krieg. Danach wurde er zum Haupttäter des Genozids. Manche verehren ihn immer noch.

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

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general responsible for atrocities in Bosnia during the 1990s, has died in prison at age 84.