politics
Ratko Mladic dies nine years after genocide conviction
Mladic, who had suffered several strokes in recent months, was serving a life sentence in The Hague for genocide, war crimes.
TL;DR
- Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, has died.
- He was serving a life sentence in The Hague for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
- Mladic was convicted for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed.
- He also oversaw the siege of Sarajevo.
- Mladic insisted he was chosen by 'fate' to defend the Serb people.
- He was arrested in 2011 after evading capture for 16 years.
- His daughter Ana died by suicide in 1994.
- Despite his conviction, many Serbs continued to revere him.