The former Bosnian-Serb general and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić has died at the age of 84, Dutch media reported on Thursday.
Mladić served as the commander-in-chief of the notorious Army of “Republika Srpska” from 1992 to 1996. During the Bosnian War, his forces attempted to enforce the separation of “national communities” in Bosnia-Herzegovina by establishing distinct, ethnically homogeneous territories. This objective was pursued through targeted war crimes and ethnic cleansing against Bosniak and Croatian civilians, including the Srebrenica massacre, where over 7,000 people were killed.
In 1995, Mladić was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and numerous other war crimes. Although he was arrested in Serbia in 2011, he was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017, a sentence he served until his death.
