Ratko Mladić, the 'butcher of Bosnia' convicted of genocide, dies
Correio da Manhã27 August 2026 at 13:23
Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian-Serbian general known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," died at the age of 78 in Belgrade. He played a cruel role during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. Convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for genocide and crimes against humanity, Mladić was directly responsible for the deaths of more than 10,000 people, including civilians, who were buried in mass graves, with the Srebrenica massacre being his most notorious crime. His death occurred while he was serving a life sentence in Serbia.
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