March 12, 1943 - Ratko Mladić
As commander of the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War, he oversaw campaigns that included the siege of Sarajevo — the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare — and the massacre at Srebrenica, where more than eight thousand Bosniak men and boys were killed in what the ICTY formally determined constituted genocide. His ability to operate within a chain of political and military command, combined with years of protection by security services and family after the war's end, shaped both the scale of the atrocities and the prolonged difficulty of securing accountability. The convictions handed down in 2017 placed him among a small number of individuals found guilty of genocide by an international tribunal in the post-Nuremberg era.
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Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He is serving a life sentence for these crimes in The Hague.
A long-time member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Mladić began his career in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in 1965. He came to prominence during the Yugoslav Wars, initially as a high-ranking officer of the JNA and subsequently as the Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska in the Bosnian War of 1992–1995. In July 1996, the Trial Chamber of the ICTY, proceeding in the absence of Mladić under the ICTY's Rule 61, confirmed all counts of the original indictments, finding there were reasonable grounds to believe he had committed the alleged crimes, and issued an international arrest warrant. The Serbian and United States' governments offered €5 million for information leading to Mladić's capture and arrest, but he remained at large for nearly sixteen years, initially sheltered by Serbian and Bosnian Serb security forces and later by family.
In 2011, Mladić was arrested in Lazarevo, Serbia, and extradited to The Hague.
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