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General Ratko Mladic wears a camouflage military uniform and peaked cap with insignia, looking toward the camera.
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Ratko Mladić

Bosnian Serb military leader
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Ratko Mladić (born March 12, 1942, Božinovići, Yugoslavia [now in Bosnia and Herzegovina]—died August 27, 2026, The Hague, Netherlands) was a Bosnian Serb military leader who commanded the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian conflict (1992–95) and who was widely believed to have masterminded the Srebrenica genocide, the worst episode of mass murder within Europe since World War II. Mladić was born in an isolated village in Bosnia during World War II. His father, a...

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