Mladic

British

/ məˈladɪtʃ /

noun

Ratko (ˈratko). born 1943, Bosnian military figure, commander of the Bosnian Serb forces during the civil war of 1992–95; indicted by the U.N. for war crimes, including the massacre of 6000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica (1995); his trial at an international criminal tribunal in the Hague began in 2012

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In a detailed submission to the court on Friday, his lawyers said Mladic had already been bedbound or in a wheelchair for a long time.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Other Serb nationalists have been delighted to take the same approach – and even glorify Mladic as a Serb hero.

From BBC • May 23, 2024

Both Karadzic and Mladic were given life sentences.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

In a statement, Serbia's Interior Ministry said the police were enforcing public order and an earlier ban on all public gatherings related to the wall painting of Mladic.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2021

The trials and convictions of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the supreme political and military leaders of the Bosnian Serbs, were widely viewed as rare victories for international justice.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

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