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Mladic Dead, Justice Lingers | Texas News
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and war crimes, has died at 84 while serving a life sentence in The Hague. A key architect of Yugoslavia’s 1990s bloodshed, he oversaw the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre — Europe’s worst atrocity since WWII — with chilling orders to “scorch the brains” of Bosnian Muslims. His 2017 conviction brought justice to victims after decades of suffering, but his death stirs mixed emotions: survivors grieve unresolved trauma and denial of his crimes, while some Bosnian Serbs mourn him as a national hero. Once on the run, Mladic…
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