Infamous War Criminal Convicted Of Genocide Dead At 83

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Infamous War Criminal Convicted Of Genocide Dead At 83

The former Bosnian Serb general responsible for Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II, Ratko Mladic, was announced dead by Serbian state media on Thursday.

Mladic, who ordered the killing of approximately 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia” and died at 83 years old while in custody at The Hague, the New York Times reported.

Three years prior to the Srebrenica massacre, Mladic led a 1,425-day siege, the longest in modern warfare, against the Bosnian capital, leaving over 13,000 dead, the BBC reported.

Mladic was also reported telling his men to aim at the weak and spoke of cleansing the lands of Muslims.

“Borders are drawn in blood,” Mladic said. “And states marked out with graves.”

Upon reaching the U.N.-declared safe zone of Srebrenica, Mladic spent five days sending shells and rockets into the city before entering it with a TV crew.

He would then film himself handing out candy and patting children on the head. After, the city’s women would be raped, and the village’s men and boys would be tied up, blindfolded and executed, the BBC reported.

Mladic’s men would then spend four days bulldozing the deceased into mass graves, a report from Reuters recounts.

Mladic’s ruthless tactics contributed to the larger regional conflict, which left more than 100,000 dead before he was taken into custody in 2011 after being on the run for over a decade, according to the Associated Press. (RELATED: Police Arrest Teacher For Tampering With Evidence One Year After Allegations Of Nude Photos, Cuddling With Students)

Found in a Serbian farming village, Mladic’s arrest ended a 16-year manhunt before he was brought to an international tribunal in 2017 to face charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Times reported.

When handing the butcher a life sentence, the presiding judge said that Mladic’s crimes were “among the most heinous known to humankind.”

Mladic later attempted to appeal the verdict in 2021 with no success.

The U.N. said that Dutch authorities have already begun the standard procedures and investigations, while the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals has ordered a “full inquiry” into the exact cause of Mladic’s death, Reuters reported.