Ratko Mladić prior to the pronouncement of the Appeal Judgment at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, The Netherlands, 08 June 2021.Pool photo by Jerry Lampen/EPA

Ratko Mladić, ‘butcher of Bosnia’, dies at the Hague aged 84 – POLITICO

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Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander who was the architect of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War, has died aged 84, according to Serbian state media.

The war criminal was serving a life sentence at The Hague for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.

“Ratko Mladić is dead, and there’s not much to say about it. The fact [that he’s dead] does not change much. It doesn’t bring back the dead. It doesn’t erase the mass graves. It doesn’t alter the verdicts. It doesn’t turn a criminal into a historical figure,” Emir Suljagić, the head of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, posted on X.