Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, infamous for his brutality during the Bosnian War, has died while in detention by the United Nations. Mladic, 84, was convicted of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He was particularly known for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered. Dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia”, Mladic remained a divisive figure, celebrated by some Serbs as a defender of their people, and condemned globally for his atrocities. His death closes a chapter on a dark period of European history, though the wounds of the war remain deep. He spent years evading capture before being apprehended in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment.