Mladic

British  

/ məˈladɪtʃ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

"Maybe there will be more graffiti for a short period. But maybe soon there will be less, or it will stop. The posters of Ratko Mladic put up in Srebrenica this week have already disappeared."

From BBC • Jul. 28, 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