Genocide

A banner depicting Ratko Mladic held by supporters at a demonstration in Belgrade, March 2019. Photo: EPA/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC. Live Blog: War Criminal Ratko Mladic’s Funeral in Serbia Follow BIRN’s reporters for the latest developments as the wartime Bosnian Serb military chief, who died while serving a life sentence for genocide…

Although it’s already 12.10 p.m. on Saturday and the commemoration for convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic was scheduled to start ten minutes ago, several dozen people are still queueing in front of the Serbian Army House in Belgrade city centre. One of the last people to join the queue is…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaking in Macva District in western Serbia. Photo: buducnostrbijeav/Instagram. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that “The Hague wanted Mladic to die behind bars, not in a hospital” because the UN court declined to release the former Bosnian Serb military chief for palliative care in…

The Serbian government will organise the transportation of the body of the convicted Bosnian Serb general from The Hague to Belgrade and arrange his funeral with state honours. This post is also available in this language: Bos/Hrv/Srp Ratko Mladic arrives in court for the verdict in his trial, November 2017.…

After news broke on Thursday that Ratko Mladic had died at the UN Detention Unit in The Hague, reactions in media and social networks highlighted continuing divisions across the region – some condemning the wartime Bosnian Serb general’s crimes, others praising his legacy. The reactions differed sharply in media coverage…

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide for orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre during the Balkans wars of the 1990s has died in prison aged 84. Mladic oversaw the killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a UN-designated “safe area” in the town in 1995. Over…

After repeated reports that the health of Ratko Mladic was deteriorating severely and his life was coming to an end, the former Bosnian Serb Army general died on Thursday in the United Nations detention centre in The Hague at the age of 84. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former…

Ratko Mladic waiting for his appeal judgment in The Hague, June 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Jerry Lampen/Pool. Ratko Mladic, wartime commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska,  died on Thursday at the age of 84 at the UN Detention Centre in The Hague. Mladic was was serving a…

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, has died, a U.N. official said on Thursday. The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of…

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime commander convicted by an international court for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, has died at the age of 84. Serbian state broadcaster RTS reported on August 27 that he had died in a prison hospital…