# Allan Little: I met dangerously fanatical Mladić early in the Bosnian war

https://mins.news/en/item/34754

- BBC News, 2026-08-27 18:12 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl744j0ww1o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> BBC special correspondent Allan Little recalls meeting Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić during the first hot summer of the Bosnian war. He describes the ethnic cleansing, expulsions and atrocities carried out by forces under Mladić’s command, and the personal shock of his cameraman Tihomir Tunukovic being killed by a Serb gunner.

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