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| Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies in The Hague |
| 2026-08-28 |
| [TheGuardian] Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in The Hague. Mladić had been one of the main architects of the policy of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. He was convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 killing of at least 8,000 Muslims in the UN-designated “safe area” Srebrenica, the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war. Mladić, who was nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia”, had been in ill health after having a series of strokes. A UN international tribunal confirmed Mladić’s death, saying he had died in hospital in The Hague earlier in the day. More from regnum.ru The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed condolences to the family and friends of General Mladic. They would... On August 27, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its deepest condolences to the family and friends of former Republika Srpska Army Commander General Ratko Mladić on his death. "We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased," the department's website said. Mladić spent the last ten years of his life in prison in The Hague, where he served a sentence imposed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that his rights, including his right to medical care, were violated during the trial. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this year alone, Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), has repeatedly denied the terminally ill Mladić's release on humanitarian grounds. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified that the most recent such decision was made several days ago. The ministry added that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) bears full responsibility for what happened to Mladić. In 2017, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army to life imprisonment, including for the genocide in Srebrenica. On August 27, former Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Movement of Socialists party, Aleksandar Vulin, stated that Mladić died in The Hague as a free man and deserved a burial with military honors. He also called for the general's memory to be preserved, noting that for Serbs, Mladić will not die. |
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