Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84
The bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers' bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said.
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- First observed by CurrentWire: NPR · Aug 27, 2026 at 9:32 AM ET
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PBS NewsHourTier A
Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84(opens original report in a new tab)CBC NewsTier A
Ratko Mladic, war criminal and former Bosnian Serb military leader, dead(opens original report in a new tab)Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War, has died. — CBC News
NPRTier A
Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, has died at 84(opens original report in a new tab)Ratko Mladic was one of the most notorious figures of a war that killed over 100,000 people in the 1990s. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a "Serbian God." — NPR
ABC NewsTier B
Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84(opens original report in a new tab)Ratko Mladic, the notorious Bosnian Serb general, has died at 84 while serving a life sentence for war crimes — ABC News
CBS NewsTier B
Ratko Mladic, so-called "Butcher of Bosnia," dies in prison at 84(opens original report in a new tab)The Bosnian Serb general oversaw atrocities in Bosnia in the 1990s. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2017. — CBS News
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