Ratko Mladic death: Former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide dies aged 83

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general known as the 'Butcher of Bosnia', has died in prison at age 84. Convicted in 2017, he was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed during the 1990s Balkan wars. Mladic was a primary architect of ethnic cleansing and orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where at least 8,000 Muslims were killed, marking the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war.