Ratko Mladić: The monstrous crimes of the 'Butcher of Bosnia'
- Image source, Corbis/Getty ImagesBySam WoodhouseRatko Mladić, who has died at the age of 84, was the bull-necked "Butcher of Bosnia".
- As Commander of the Bosnian Serb army, he oversaw a brutal campaign of "ethnic cleansing" as Yugoslavia splintered in the 1990s.
- The phrase was a chilling euphemism for the massacre of tens of thousands of men, women and children - in pursuit of what he saw as a chance to fulfil the historic destiny of Greater Serbia.
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- Image source, Corbis/Getty ImagesBySam WoodhouseRatko Mladić, who has died at the age of 84, was the bull-necked "Butcher of Bosnia".
- As Commander of the Bosnian Serb army, he oversaw a brutal campaign of "ethnic cleansing" as Yugoslavia splintered in the 1990s.
- The phrase was a chilling euphemism for the massacre of tens of thousands of men, women and children - in pursuit of what he saw as a chance to fulfil the historic destiny of Greater Serbia.
Sources: BBC News