Ratko Mladic, convicted over Srebrenica genocide, dies at 84
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has died aged 84 in a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, according to confirmation reported from the UN tribunal in The Hague.
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- Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has died aged 84 in a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands, according to confirmation reported from the UN tribunal in The Hague.
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died aged 84 in a United Nations prison hospital in the Netherlands.
The UN tribunal in The Hague confirmed his death on August 27, 2026, according to reports carried by Al Jazeera. Mladic had been serving a life sentence following his conviction for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the 1992–1995 Bosnian war.
His conviction centred in part on the killing of thousands of Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica, an atrocity recognised by international courts as genocide. He was also held responsible for crimes connected to the siege of Sarajevo and other wartime operations.
The death closes the prison chapter of one of the most prominent prosecutions arising from the breakup of Yugoslavia. Its legal record remains central to international efforts to document responsibility for atrocities committed during the Bosnian conflict.
