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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Steph Brawn

Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies aged 84

The UN tribunal for war crimes committed during the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s sentenced Mladic, front, to life in prison in 2017 (Image: Radivoje Pavicic/AP)

RATKO Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since the Second World War, has died in prison at age 84.

Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television have reported that Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for his crimes, died in a UN prison hospital in The Hague, in the Netherlands.

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