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Photograph: Oleg Stjepanovic/AP     (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-1)   View image in fullscreen       Bosnian Serb army commander Gen Ratko Mladić  addresses his troops in the eastern Bosnian town of Vlasenica in December 1995. Photograph: Oleg Stjepanovic/AP       (https://www.theguardian.com/world/ratko-mladic) Ratko Mladić     Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies in The Hague   Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide From the archive: (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/14-years-fugitive-hunt-for-ratko-mladic-butcher-of-bosnia) Fourteen years a fugitive: the hunt for the Butcher of Bosnia    (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-bosnia-camps-mass-murder-torture-rape-serbian) Ratko Mladić will die in jail. But go to Bosnia: you’ll see that he won            (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/peterbeaumont) Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent   Thu 27 Aug 2026 12.12 EDT  First published on Thu 27 Aug 2026 10.21 EDT   (mailto:?subject=Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies in The Hague&body=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84?CMP=share_btn_url) Share          (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) Prefer the Guardian on Google          Ratko Mladić, the infamous Serbian general who was serving a life sentence for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, has died in prison in The Hague. Mladić had been one of the main architects of the policy of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. He was (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-the-warlike-youth-turned-balkan-war-criminal) convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/jul/01/the-srebrenica-massacre-archive-july-1995) killing of at least 8,000 Muslims in the UN-designated “safe area” Srebrenica , the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war.  Mladić, who was nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia”, had been in ill health after having a series of strokes. A UN international tribunal confirmed Mladić’s death, saying he had died in hospital in The Hague earlier in the day. “Mladić passed away today while hospitalised in The Hague,” the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said in a statement, adding that judge Graciela Gatti Santana had ordered “a full inquiry into the circumstances” of his death. Described by the former UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein as “the epitome of evil” after his conviction, (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-the-warlike-youth-turned-balkan-war-criminal) Mladić was one of the most notorious figures of the war that killed more than 100,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless.       (The Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić (right) with Ratko Mladić in 1995)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-2)   View image in fullscreen       The Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić (right) with Mladić in 1995. Karadžić was also sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and war crimes.  Photograph: Ranko Cukovic/Reuters  He commanded his troops to “scorch the brains” of Bosnian Muslim people and had boasted of being a “Serbian god”. The news of Mladić’s death was first broken on Serbian state television after his son, Darko, had spoken earlier about his father’s declining health. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/srebrenica-bosnia-genocide-remembered)  ‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica     Read more        Mladić was sentenced by a UN tribunal to life imprisonment in 2017 over genocide and war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1990s war. He was arrested in Serbia in 2011 after 16 years on the run. The slaughter in Srebrenica was the culmination of a brutal war that had lasted more than three ⁠years, during which Mladić oversaw the siege of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, which was pounded daily by artillery, tank and sniper fire, killing 10,000 people. The goal of the Serbian leadership, which Mladić was tasked with implementing – as determined ⁠by the UN’s international criminal tribunal for ⁠the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) – was the forcible expulsion of ​Bosnian Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs to clear Bosnian land for the creation of a greater Serbia. The tribunal found that Mladić, together with the late Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and the Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadžić, were part of a criminal conspiracy to implement the plan.     (Slobodan Milošević)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-3)   View image in fullscreen       Slobodan Milošević. Photograph: Srdjan Ilic/AP  “I do not recognise this court,” Mladić said at an ⁠ICTY hearing on his case in 2014. When he was sentenced, he shouted: “This is all lies, you are all liars!” The Serbian campaign culminated in the horror of Srebrenica when, after the withdrawal of Dutch UN peacekeeping forces, thousands of Bosnian men and boys were rounded up, killed and their bodies bulldozed into mass graves.       (Mladić, in combat fatigues, walks along a street at the head of a group of soldiers)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-4)   View image in fullscreen       Mladić (front left) entering Srebrenica in 1995. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Shutterstock  Mladić had the siege filmed to show him praising his “lads” and haranguing the UN peacekeepers who misguidedly accepted his solemn word that the inhabitants would be safe in his hands. “We give this town to the Serb people as a gift,” Mladić said to the camera, claiming the victory as revenge against Muslim Turks, who had once held the area as part ‌of the Ottoman empire. The next day, Mladić’s forces were filmed handing out sweets to children, promising their safe passage. Meanwhile, thousands of men and boys were being readied for slaughter. (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#EmailSignup-skip-link-21) skip past newsletter promotion    Free newsletter | Weekly Sign up to This is Europe  The most pressing stories and debates for Europeans – from identity to economics to the environment  ()   Enter your email  ()   Sign up      after newsletter promotion         (Mladić, standing alongside other Bosnian Serb troops, pats a boy’s cheek)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-5)   View image in fullscreen       A screengrab from 12 July 1995 shows Mladić speaking to a young Muslim boy after he had assured residents of Srebrenica they would be safe. Photograph: AP  When Nato tried in 1995 to rein in his forces with the threat of limited airstrikes, his troops seized UN peacekeepers as human shields, chaining them to likely targets. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/14-years-fugitive-hunt-for-ratko-mladic-butcher-of-bosnia)  14 years a fugitive: the hunt for Ratko Mladic, the Butcher of Bosnia | Julian Borger     Read more        The son of a second world war partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladić was, according to his family, born in March 1943 in the tiny Bosnian village of Bozinovici, putting his age at death at 83 (though official documents recorded his date of birth a year earlier, in 1942). Mladić was an officer in the communist Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia’s disintegration began in 1991. When Bosnian Serbs rose in 1992 against Bosnia’s Muslim-led secession, Mladić was chosen to command the new Bosnian Serb army that swiftly overran 70% of the country. Dozens of towns were besieged with heavy weapons that once belonged to the JNA and villages were burned down, as 22,000 troops with the UN Protection Force stood by, more or less helplessly, under orders not to take sides.       (A woman, in coat and headscarf, raises her outstretched arms as other women sit applauding)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-6)   View image in fullscreen       Ediba Salihović raises her hands as she reacts with other Bosnian women upon hearing the sentence at the end of Mladić’s trial in Potočari, near Srebrenica, in November 2017. Photograph: Amel Emrić/AP  A combination of western pressure, Nato strikes and covert US arms and training for Croats and ⁠Muslims gradually turned the tide against Mladić’s army. After the war, Mladić went into hiding, with the reformists ruling post-conflict Serbia not daring ​to move against a man who was a hero to a core of nationalist Serbs. Mladić continued to insist he was “a simple man” chosen to protect his people. When he was finally arrested in 2011, he put up no resistance. He had a heart ​attack in 2013 and seemed older than his years. By his own account, he felt like a frail old man. This month, a UN doctor said Mladić’s death “may occur at any time”, possibly within weeks, but his application for release was again rejected.       (Munira Subašić  speaks to press surrounded by mics)   (ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84.html#img-7)   View image in fullscreen       Munira Subašić (pictured in 2019), from the Mothers of Srebrenica group, said she deplored that Mladić’s crimes were still being denied by many Bosnian Serbs. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty  Munira Subašić, from the Mothers of Srebrenica group, said she deplored that Mladić’s crimes were still being denied by many Bosnian Serbs. “Today, a major war criminal died, the criminal of the Balkans,” Subašić said. But while 31 years later mothers of victims were “still carrying the pain in our souls … we are still listening to denials, we are still listening to how Ratko Mladić was a hero for the Serbs”. Elizabeth Evenson, the international justice director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The death of Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb army commander found guilty of genocide, including the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian men and boys after the fall of Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July 1995, is a reminder of the ongoing need for justice, truth, and reparations in the western Balkans. “Full accountability for such terrible crimes, in Bosnia and elsewhere, demands commitment by governments to justice, even decades after the events themselves.”         Explore more on these topics (https://www.theguardian.com/world/ratko-mladic) Ratko Mladić  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/serbia) Serbia  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/bosnia-and-herzegovina) Bosnia and Herzegovina  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news) Europe  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/srebrenica-massacre) Srebrenica massacre  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/radovankaradzic) Radovan Karadzic  (https://www.theguardian.com/tone/news) news    (mailto:?subject=Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies in The Hague&body=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84?CMP=share_btn_url) Share     (https://syndication.theguardian.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2026%2Faug%2F27%2Fratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84&type=article&internalpagecode=world/2026/aug/27/ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84) (Reuse this content) Reuse this content                  More on this story                        More on this story                       (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/srebrenica-bosnia-genocide-remembered)    ()      ‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica   (Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time) 10 Jul 2025           (https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/jul/01/the-srebrenica-massacre-archive-july-1995)    ()      The Srebrenica massacre - archive, July 1995   (Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 05:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time) 1 Jul 2020           (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-the-warlike-youth-turned-balkan-war-criminal)    ()      Ratko Mladić, the 'warlike youth' turned Balkan war criminal   (Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 06:35 AM Eastern Standard Time) 22 Nov 2017           (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-convicted-of-genocide-and-war-crimes-at-un-tribunal)    ()      Ratko Mladić convicted of war crimes and genocide at UN tribunal   (Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 06:00 AM Eastern Standard Time) 22 Nov 2017           (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/13/how-the-hanging-woman-revealed-truth-of-bosnias-mass-killer)    ()      How the ‘Hanging Woman’ revealed truth of Bosnia’s mass killer   (Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 04:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time) 13 Jun 2021           (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/ratko-mladic-bosnia-camps-mass-murder-torture-rape-serbian)    ()      double quotation mark   Ratko Mladić will die in jail. 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