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Daily Sabah (14 May 2026)

Nurbanu Tanrıkulu Kızıl

U.N. war crimes court on Thursday rejected a bid for early release by former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," who is serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and atrocities committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica [Genocide].

Mladic is serving a life sentence for ​his role in the 1992-95 war ​in ⁠Bosnia, and is currently held in the U.N. detention unit in The Hague.

The general filed a motion for early release on humanitarian grounds, the court said last month, because he is in a state of "advanced, irreversible medical decline."

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