Ratko Mladic, also known as “the butcher of Srebrenica”, former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs convicted of war crimes, has died in a hospital in The Hague. Mladic, 84 years old, had suffered several strokes. Mladic was nicknamed the “butcher of Srebrenica” for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, one of the most dramatic episodes of the war in Bosnia.
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Mladić died in a prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 83, said Lidija Pavićević, Deputy Secretary of State at the Ministry of Human Rights and Minorities of Serbia, stating she received the information from the former commander’s son, Darko Mladić, quoted by Tanjug. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017, since 2024, Mladić was held in a psychiatric hospital in The Hague, where he had been bedridden for a year and a half.
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In recent months Serbia had requested his humanitarian release for health reasons, as he was terminally ill and a victim of one or two strokes, but the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague rejected the requests, stating that he was receiving the necessary (palliative) care in prison.
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