Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić dies at 84
Ratko Mladić, sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 84.
Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, has died at the age of 84. He stood among the most prominent figures convicted for atrocities committed during the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1995.
In 2017, a court found Mladić guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to life imprisonment. The conviction related to crimes committed during those years of conflict in Bosnia.
Mladić's case stood as one of the most significant international war crimes prosecutions to follow the conflicts sparked by the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. His death closes one of the longest-running and most closely watched cases in international justice tied to the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
