‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić

Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasive To most of the world, he was and will always be the “Butcher of Bosnia”, a grim epithet but one that still fails to fully convey the evil and horror inflicted on its people by Gen Ratko Mladić, who died in prison on Thursday. As commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, Mladić was responsible for the killing of an estimated 100,000 men, women and children during the savage b...

By Kim Willsher

Srebrenica survivor Ahmed Hrustanovic reflects on Ratko Mladic's death

Ahmed Hrustanovic reflects on Ratko Mladic's death with NPR's Scott Simon. All of Hrustanovic's adult male relatives died in the Srebrenica Massacre engineered by Mladic.

By Scott Simon

Timeline: Life of Ratko Mladic, general turned ‘Butcher of Bosnia’

Mladic died in prison in The Hague after failed requests by Serbian authorities to secure early release to home country.