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Ratko Mladić's death in UN custody
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Ratko Mladić died at 84 in palliative care at a UN prison hospital in The Hague while serving a life sentence and awaiting transfer to a state that would accept him. His death has prompted divided reactions in Serbia and Bosnia over how he should be remembered; no further developments are reported.
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Ratko Mladić Dies in Prison: The Reckoning Splits the Balkans
At least 8,000 dead at Srebrenica. An 84-year-old prisoner dead in The Hague. And a promised state funeral that forces the Balkans to choose how to remember genocide.
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- No verified burial location, date, or transfer of remains is established in the provided sources.
- No verified detailed medical timeline beyond recent strokes, and no verified inquiry findings, are established in the provided sources.
History
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People
Aleksandar Vučić5th President of the Republic of Serbia1 report
Emir SuljagićBosnian writer1 report
Milorad Dodikpolitician1 report- Nenad VujićSerbian politician (born 1966)1 report
Ratko Mladićconvicted war-criminal and former general of the Bosnian Serb military (1991–1996), (1942–2026)1 report
Savo MinićBosnian Serb politician1 report
Places
- LazarevoLazarevo, Serbia1 report
- Prison ScheveningenPompstationsweg 32, 2597 JW Den Haag, Netherlands1 report
- Republika SrpskaRepublika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina1 report
- SarajevoSarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina1 report
- SrebrenicaSrebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina1 report
- Topčider CemeteryTopčidersko groblje, Pionirska 6, Beograd 11000, Serbia1 report
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