Mladić, Convicted Bosnian Serb War Criminal, Dies Aged 84

Ratko Mladić, the convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal, has died aged 84. He had been held in custody in The Hague while serving his sentence. In 2017, an international court convicted Mladić and imposed a life term. The ruling found him responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors tied the crimes to atrocities committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, particularly between 1992 and 1995. Mladić became a central figure in the search for accountability after the wars, and the 2017 verdict was widely seen as a landmark in international criminal justice. Even after his death, the legal judgment remains in place, and the case continues to shape how the world remembers those years.