The Fall of the Butcher of Bosnia | US News

US News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 27, 2026 · 1m

The “Butcher of Bosnia” Ratko Mladic, convicted for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica genocide that killed over 8,000 Muslim men and boys, has died. His brutal campaign, including a three-year siege of Sarajevo that claimed 10,000 lives, was part of a broader ethnic cleansing effort to build a Greater Serbia. Alongside Milosevic and Karadzic, he was found guilty of a conspiracy to annihilate Bosnian Muslims. Known for defiantly rejecting justice during sentencing, Mladic lived in hiding until his arrest in 2011, when he was frail and stroke-ridden. Despite repeated appeals for medical release…