Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84. He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-95. After the Bosnian war, he went on the run for 16 years until he was finally tracked down in rural Serbia in 2011 and put on trial in the Dutch city. The sentence for the man known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" was upheld on appeal by the UN court in 2021. He was being given palliative care in the hospital of the UN detention facility, where he died. In a statement confirming the death on Thursday, the UN Court said Dutch authorities have begun an investigation. It added that the court's top judge"has ordered a full inquiry into the circumstances" of Mladić's death. In May, the court rejected a bid for his release from jail as he was nearing the end of his life. The judge agreed his situation was "dire" but ruled that he was receiving "comprehensive and compassionate treatment" in prison. Mladić's lawyers said at the time that he had already been bedbound or in a wheelchair for a long time and later had suffered a suspected stroke that left him almost unable
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When I testified against Mladić at his trial in The Hague, I saw the unrepentant face of a mass murderer. That face and his legacy still haunt Serbia today Men age and die, but in the Balkans, time stands still and is stuck. General Ratko…
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When I testified against Mladić at his trial in The Hague, I saw the unrepentant face of a mass murderer. That face and his legacy still haunt Serbia today Men age and die, but in the Balkans, time stands still and is…
Read original at The Guardian →Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84. He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia…
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When I testified against Mladić at his trial in The Hague, I saw the unrepentant face of a mass murderer. That face and his legacy still haunt Serbia today Men age and die, but in the Balkans, time stands still and is stuck. General Ratko…
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