politics
Ratko Mladić: The monstrous crimes of the 'Butcher of Bosnia'
Ratko Mladić, who has died at the age of 84, was the bull-necked "Butcher of Bosnia".
TL;DR
- Ratko Mladić, "Butcher of Bosnia," commanded the Bosnian Serb army during the 1990s Yugoslav wars.
- He orchestrated brutal "ethnic cleansing" campaigns, including the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre.
- The Srebrenica massacre involved the murder of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.
- Mladić was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity at the Hague.
- He was seen as a hero by many Serbs but remembered as a war criminal internationally.