Ratko Mladic, "boucher de Bosnie", victime d'un AVC, selon son fils
Bosnian Serb military commander Mr. Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 by a UN tribunal for genocide and war crimes committed during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.
He is 83 years old, according to UN court documents.
He was found guilty of his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed, an act classified as genocide by international justice.
His son, Darko Mladic, told RTRS on Wednesday that he received initial information about his father's health on Friday, when he was contacted by a doctor approved by the UN.
"She (the doctor) briefly explained that they thought it was a silent stroke (mild, editor's note), that he had been taken to a civilian hospital, then brought back (to prison) after scans and tests," he said.
According to Darko Mladic, his father's health is deteriorating daily. "The situation is very serious," he said, adding that he was awaiting the medical report from The Hague so that Serbian doctors could give their opinion.
The family hopes he will be allowed to receive treatment in Serbia, his son added.
"There is no reason why they should not grant us this," he hoped, speaking of "fundamental rights."
Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia in 2011 after sixteen years on the run. His son regularly speaks to the Serbian media about his father's fragile health; he is still considered a hero by many Serbs.
Mr. Mladic has long been described by his lawyers as ill and frail, and his defense requested his provisional release for medical reasons as early as 2017.
In July 2025, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia rejected his request for early release, finding that his state of health did not meet the criteria of an "acute terminal illness" required for such release.
His life sentence was upheld on appeal in 2021.
Ratko Mladic was also found guilty of orchestrating a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" aimed at driving Muslims and Croats out of entire regions on which he wanted to establish, with former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a "Greater Serbia".
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