politics
'Butcher of Bosnia' dies in prison aged 84 after being convicted of genocide
A RUTHLESS warlord dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” has died in prison.
TL;DR
- Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia," died in prison at age 84.
- He was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995).
- Mladic was notorious for ethnic cleansing and military actions that killed over 100,000 people.
- His forces massacred 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
- He was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017.
- Mladic died in a prison hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, after suffering from poor health.