'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic dies

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide, has died.Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", was serving a life sentence for his role in the country's 1992-95 war. Local media in Bosnia reported on Thursday that the 84-year-old had died in a United Nations prison hospital in The Hague, the Netherlands. A UN official then confirmed his death to Reuters news agency.The ruthless ex-military chief was one of the most notorious figures of the conflict, which left more than 100,000 people dead and over one million homeless. Image: The general speaking to soldiers in 1994. Pic: AP Mladic commanded the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swathes of the country, laying siege to the capital Sarajevo and killing civilians with snipers, while also establishing concentration camps for non-Serb civilians, enemy soldiers and prisoners. In 1995, his troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, in Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War. Image: Refugee women reading the names of missing men written on pillows in 1995. Pic: Reuters The dead were bulldozed into mass graves, with some bodies later dug up and moved to remote mount...