Timeline: Life of Ratko Mladic, general turned ‘Butcher of Bosnia’

Ratko Mladic, a war criminal convicted for his role in orchestrating the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995 – the first genocide on European soil since the second world war – died in prison in The Hague at the age of 84.⁠He had been serving a life sentence for ‌genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – crimes whose “seriousness” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres restated after his death on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3‘A true hell’: How three Srebrenica survivors defied death 30 years agolist 2 of 3Srebrenica: Genocide on Triallist 3 of 3Obituary: Ratko Mladic, war criminal convicted of Srebrenica genocide, diesend of list“The Secretary-General stands in solidarity with the victims, survivors and ⁠their families who suffered the crimes for which Mr Mladic was found guilty … [and] reiterates his call on all ‌those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated,” Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.On Friday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused the UN war crimes court of “uncivilised behaviour” for not allowing Mladic early release, which would have seen...