Died Ratko Mladić, the "butcher of Bosnia" convicted of genocide

Ratko Mladic, the former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," died at age 84 in the hospital of the Hague detention center, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and war crimes committed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995), including the Srebrenica massacre.

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