Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War, has died.

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

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

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