Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, has died at the age of 84 in a United Nations detention facility in The Hague.
Key points
- He was serving a life sentence handed down by international war crimes judges.
- His military campaign during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war included the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
- After nearly 16 years on the run, he was arrested in Serbia in 2011 and extradited to The Hague.
Why it matters
His death marks the end of a central legal and historical chapter stemming from the accountability trials of the Yugoslav wars.
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