Ratko Mladić, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities in Bosnia, dies in prison at 84

nd raped in prison camps; were made to jump off a bridge and ‌shot; and were gunned down at night by the hundreds after being driven out of detention with chemical gas.

Ratko Mladić, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, has died, a U.N. ​official said on Thursday.

The Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television reported that Mladić died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague, Netherlands.

A family member of Mladić, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, confirmed the reports for the AP and said Mladić’s son, Darko Mladić, was on the way to The Hague.

U.N. court officials told the AP in a statement that they could not immediately confirm Mladić’s death.

The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of a war that had lasted over three years, in which the general pounded the besieged capital Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns of his nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000.