Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladić dies aged 84 - BBC News

He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Mladić went on the run after the Bosnian war for 15 years before eventually going on trial at The Hague

Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84.

He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-95.

After the Bosnian war, he went on the run for 16 years until he was finally tracked down in rural Serbia in 2011 and put on trial in the Dutch city.

The sentence for the man known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" was upheld on appeal in 2021. He was being given palliative care in the hospital of the UN detention facility, where he died.