Ratko Mladic: Rise, crimes and downfall

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Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and other war crimes committed during the Bosnian war, died on Thursday at a UN detention hospital in The Hague. He was 84 and was serving a life sentence. Mladic commanded Bosnian Serb forces during some of the war’s worst atrocities, including the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in