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Re: Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ 84

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s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> Good riddance!
> 
> <https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/europe/ratko-mladic-bosnian-serb-dead-intl>
> 
> Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general who orchestrated the Srebrenica
> massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars, has died in
> prison aged 84.
> 
> Known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” Mladić was convicted in 2017 by
> the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for
> masterminding a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnia’s non-Serb
> population in the early 1990s.

Sounds like the kind of mentality that would earn commendations
in the Trump/Hegseth Department of "War".
 
> The UN-established court found him guilty of genocide, crimes against
> humanity, persecution, extermination, murder, terror, unlawful attacks
> on civilians and hostage-taking.
> 
> At the time of Mladić’s indictment, ICTY Judge Fouad Riad described
> the actions the former general oversaw as “unimaginable savagery.”
> 
> Mladić died while serving a life sentence at the UN Detention Unit in
> The Hague, his lawyer Dragan Ivetić told CNN. He spent just over 15
> years in prison.
> 
> Following his conviction, Mladić made multiple appeals and requests for
> release on medical grounds. The last of these was filed by his lawyers
> just last week.
> 
> They asked for an early release on humanitarian grounds, quoting the
> detention unit’s doctors as saying that his “overall condition has
> rapidly declined” and warning that his death “may occur at any
> time.” The request was denied. 

A life sentence is a life sentence,
not an until-really-sick sentence.

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Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ 84 "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-27 18:16 +0200
  Re: Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ 84 Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-08-28 02:23 +0000

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