# Ratko Mladic, ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies aged 84

https://mins.news/en/item/34643

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-27 15:47 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/27/ratko-mladic-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84?traffic_source=rss

> Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, has died. He was serving a life sentence for crimes including the Srebrenica genocide, in which 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men were killed. He also led the four-year siege of Sarajevo.

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