Convicted war-criminal and former general of the Bosnian Serb military (1991-1996)
Ratko Mladić (born 12 March 1943) is a Bosnian Serb general and a war criminal who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. On 31 May 2011, Mladić was extradited to The Hague, where he was processed at the detention center that holds suspects for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY); he was convicted in 2017.
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We are fully aware that war is not the only way to defend our values. But if those values are fundamentally endangered, as is the case today, then war is the only way to defend them. Everything that hinders us in our effort to defend ourselves is an injustice. We did not want this war, it was thrust upon us, like all others. Defending one's people is a holy duty,