Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić dies in UN detention at 84
Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, died on Thursday in a United Nations detention center in The Hague at the age of 84, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS and a UN official .
Mladić was serving a life sentence for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed under his command, as well as for the prolonged siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War . The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague had repeatedly denied his family’s requests for early release on humanitarian grounds, despite his declining health following multiple strokes .
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had publicly advocated for Mladić’s transfer to Serbia in his final days, stating, “I do not understand why someone is not allowed to spend their last days outside a cell,” according to reports . Mladić’s death was confirmed by his family and a high-ranking UN representative .
Emir Suljagić, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, responded to the news on X, stating, “Ratko Mladić is dead, and there’s not much to say about it. The fact does not change much. It doesn’t bring back the dead. It doesn’t erase the mass graves. It doesn’t alter the verdicts. It doesn’t turn a criminal into a historical figure” .
Mladić, a former general in the Army of Republika Srpska, was a central figure in the Bosnian War, overseeing the siege of Sarajevo and the capture of Srebrenica, a UN-designated “safe area” . He was arrested in 2011 after 15 years as a fugitive and convicted in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia .
The UN designated July 11 as a day of remembrance for the Srebrenica victims in 2025 . Mladić’s legacy remains deeply divisive; while many in Serbia viewed him as a war hero, survivors and international observers remember him as the architect of Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II .
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🇷🇸 🇳🇱 Former Bosnian Serb military leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic has died in a prison hospital in The Hague, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS, after suffering several strokes ➡️ u.afp.com/SVMp
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