The monstrous crimes of Ratko Mladic, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’

Ratko 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