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PROFILE: War criminal Ratko Mladic, 'the Butcher of Bosnia,' reported to have died

VIDEO SHOWS: FILE OF BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL AND CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL RATKO MLADIC

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SHOWS: Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, died in prison on Thursday, August 27, at age 84, Serbian Informer TV reported.

The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia’s disintegration began in 1991.

When Bosnian Serbs rose in 1992 against Bosnia’s Muslim-led secession, Mladic was picked to command the new Bosnian Serb army that swiftly overran 70% of the country.

Dozens of towns were besieged with heavy weapons that once belonged to the JNA and villages were burned down as 22,000 troops of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) stood by more or less helplessly, with orders not to take sides.

MOUNT OZREN, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - MAY 18, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3)

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1. BOSNIAN SERB ARMY COMMANDER, RATKO MLADIC CLIMBING HILL WITH SOLDIERS

2. MLADIC LISTENING TO LOCAL COMMANDER EXPLAINING ARMY'S POSITION

3. HILLS WHERE BOSNIAN SERB ARMY IS POSITIONED

4. MLADIC, BOSNIAN SERB LEADER RADOVAN KARADZIC AND LOCAL COMMANDER SURVEYING HILL

NEAR GORAZDE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - APRIL 16, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

5. PLUMES OF SMOKE RISING ABOVE GORAZDE AND DERINA RIVER (AUDIO OF FIRING)

6. VARIOUS OF MLADIC VISITING TROOPS, GREETING BOSNIAN SERB OFFICER

7. VARIOUS OF MLADIC LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS FROM TRENCHES

8. BOSNIAN SERB TANK MOVING

9. MLADIC GIVING ORDERS, LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS

10. BOSNIAN SERB TANK MOVING, SOLDIERS ADVANCING UPHILL

MOUNT OZREN, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - MAY 18, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3)

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11. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

12. MLADIC AND KARADZIC IN CHURCH / MLADIC KISSING ICON AND CROSSING HIMSELF

The Srebrenica massacre was the culmination of a 3-1/2-year war in which Mladic pounded the besieged capital Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns of his nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000.

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JUNE 7, 1992) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

13. GOVERNMENT BUILDING HIT BY MORTAR FIRE

14. VARIOUS OF BURNING UNIS TOWER BUILDING WITH TRACER FIRE FLYING

15. SMOKE AND EXPLOSIONS ABOVE CITY, TRACER BULLETS FLYING

16. BURNING BUILDING BEING HIT

17. BURNING UNIS TOWER BUILDING/ SMOKE RISING

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - 1992-1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

18. VARIOUS OF BURNING BUILDING

19. BOSNIAN SERB TANK FIRING

20. EXPLOSION AS BUILDING IS SHELLED

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - MAY 30, 1992) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (AGENCY POOL - Access all)

21. UNITED NATIONS VEHICLES PARKED ON ROADSIDE

22. BULLET HOLE IN WINDSCREEN

23. MLADIC GIVING INTERVIEW

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (ARCHIVE - JANUARY 2, 1993) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS ARCHIVE

LIBRARY - No use UK)

24. KARADZIC AND MLADIC SITTING DURING PEACE TALKS OF BOSNIA'S THREE WARRING

FACTIONS, LOOKING AT MAP OF BOSNIA

25. MAP OF BOSNIA

26. MLADIC LISTENING

TRESKAVICA NEAR MOUNT IGMAN, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JULY 20, 1993)

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27. SERB TROOPS SITTING ON SIDE OF ROAD

28. MLADIC SPEAKING TO TROOPS

29. MLADIC SAYING HIS TROOPS HAD TAKEN SEVERAL VILLAGES IN AREA

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - FEBRUARY 5, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all) (QUALITY AS INCOMING)

30. PEOPLE RUNNING AND SCREAMING AFTER MARKALE MASSACRE

31. BODIES AND WOUNDED BEING REMOVED

32. WOMAN CRYING, STANDING BETWEEN MARKET STALLS

33. BODIES BEING PUT AT BACK OF TRUCK

PALE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - SEPTEMBER 24, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (AGENCY POOL - Access all)

34. MLADIC WORKING AT DESK

35. MLADIC GIVING INTERVIEW IN WHICH HE ACCUSED U.N. PEACEKEEPERS OF TURNING INTO 'OCCUPYING FORCE' ALLIED AGAINST HIS TROOPS

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - OCTOBER 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

36. CHILDREN STANDING NEAR U.N. ARMOURED CAR BEING SHOT BY SNIPER

PALE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - DECEMBER 19, 1994) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

37. (FROM LEFT) KARADZIC, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND MEDIATOR JIMMY CARTER AND MLADIC SIGNING CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT

38. CARTER SIGNING AGREEMENT / MLADIC SIGNING AGREEMENT

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JUNE 28, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (AGENCY POOL - Access all)

39. WTN BUREAU CHIEF FARIDOUN HEMANI (WITH BLOOD COMING FROM HEAD WOUND) AND UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN JOURNALIST BEING LED FROM DAMAGED BUILDING BY REUTERS TELEVISION PRODUCER GLEN FELGATE

40. INJURED WOMAN JOURNALIST BEING HELPED FROM BUILDING

41. ENTRANCE TO CNN OFFICES

42. SMASHED INTERIOR OF CNN OFFICE

The massacre in Srebrenica unfolded when the area was overrun by nationalist Bosnian Serb forces.

While the women opted to go to the U.N. compound, men tried to escape through nearby woods where most of them were caught. Some were shot immediately, and others were driven to schools or warehouses where they were killed in the following days.

The dead from Srebrenica were bulldozed into mass graves over four days in July 1995, some of them dug up and relocated to remote mountains so as to hide evidence of the killings.

POTOCARI, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JULY 12, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (BOSNIAN SERB TV - No use Bosnia and Herzegovina)

43. DUTCH BATTALION BARRACKS/ ARMED BOSNIAN SERB TROOPS

44. BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS STANDING IN FIELD

45. DUTCH UNITED NATIONS SOLDIERS LOOK THROUGH FENCE

46. THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS MASSING IN TOWN / CIVILIANS GATHERED NEAR BUSES /

U.N. SOLDIERS PATROLLING STREETS

47. CIVILIANS FROM SREBRENICA ENCLAVE MASSING IN TOWN

48. U.N. SOLDIERS PATROLLING STREET AS CIVILIANS WALK DOWN STREET

49. REFUGEES SITTING ON GROUND / U.N. SOLDIERS STANDING GUARD

50. MLADIC STANDING WITH SOLDIERS

51. MLADIC TALKING TO U.N. SOLDIERS

52. MLADIC SAYING WOMEN, CHILDREN AND ELDERLY WILL BE EVACUATED IN FIRST ROUND

53. SOLDIERS CORDONING OFF REFUGEES

54. MLADIC TALKING TO YOUNG REFUGEES

55. CROWDS OF REFUGEES FILLING STREET

56. BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS STANDING GUARD ALONG ROAD AS REFUGEES RUN TO BUSES

57. BOSNIAN MUSLIM REFUGEES WALKING PAST BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS ON TANK / BOSNIAN

SERB SOLDIERS ON TANK

58. MUSLIM WOMEN AND CHILDREN REFUGEES WALKING PAST SERB SOLDIERS TOWARDS BUSES

ZEPA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JULY 26, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (AGENCY

POOL - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

59. ELDERLY MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN INSIDE BUS

60. MLADIC ENTERING BUS / (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) BOSNIAN SERB ARMY COMMANDER

GENERAL, RATKO MLADIC, SAYING:

"Good evening! How are you? I am General Mladic and you have probably heard various stories about me. Now you will go to Kladanj, just like the previous group went. Do not worry, you are safe and nothing will happen to you."

61. BUS CARRYING REFUGEES DRIVING AWAY

62. MLADIC OFFERING CIGARETTE TO JOURNALIST AHEAD OF INTERVIEW

63. (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) BOSNIAN SERB ARMY COMMANDER GENERAL, RATKO MLADIC,

SAYING (AUDIO WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION):

"They (all parties in the conflict) should bring some reason, they should cool their heads to silence the existing weapons, to sit by the negotiating table to sign an agreement about lasting and unconditional cessation of hostilities."

64. MLADIC SITTING WITH OFFICERS AND JOURNALISTS

NEAR SREBRENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (HAGUE TRIBUNAL TV - Access all) (QUALITY AS INCOMING)

65. VARIOUS OF YOUNG MUSLIM MEN GETTING OUT OF TRUCK AND BEING FORCED TO LIE ON SIDE OF ROAD AS SERBIAN 'SCORPION' PARAMILITARIES STAND GUARD

66. PARAMILITARIES HOLDING GUNS / MEN LYING ON GROUND

TUZLA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE -JULY 18, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS - Access all)

67. TENTS IN MAKESHIFT REFUGEE CAMP

68. REFUGEES, MAINLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN WALKING IN CAMP

69. PEOPLE LOOKING AT BOARDS WITH U.N. LISTS OF MISSING REFUGEES

70. LIST OF MISSING REFUGEES

DAYTON, OHIO, UNITED STATES (ARCHIVE-NOVEMBER 21, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (AGENCY POOL - Access all)

71. (LEFT TO RIGHT) SERBIAN PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, BOSNIAN PRESIDENT

ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, CROATIAN PRESIDENT FRANJO TUDJMAN SIGNING PEACE AGREEMENT (UNITED STATES (U.S) SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER SEATED NEXT TO

TUDJMAN

VLASENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - DECEMBER 2, 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3)

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72. VARIOUS OF MLADIC INSPECTING BOSNIAN SERB TROOPS

SVRAKE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JULY 9, 1996) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS -

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73. BONES BEING REMOVED FROM MASS GRAVE

74. SKULL BEING TAKEN OUT

75. WOMAN LOOKING ON

76. VARIOUS OF BONES BEING TAKEN OUT

CERSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - JULY 10, 1996) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS

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77. VARIOUS OF SKELETAL REMAINS MARKED WITH RED FLAG

PALE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - FEBRUARY 1, 2002) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS

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78. 'WANTED' POSTERS FOR KARADZIC AND MLADIC OFFERING 5,000,000 US DOLLARS FOR

ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR WHEREABOUTS

79. MAN LAYING 'WANTED' POSTERS ON GROUND

BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - MARCH 29, 2005) (ORIGINALLY 4:3)

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80. PART OF GOVERNMENT VIDEO SHOWN BY LOCAL TV STATION SHOWING PICTURE OF MLADIC

AMONG OTHER WAR CRIME SUSPECTS

81. PART OF GOVERNMENT VIDEO SHOWN BY LOCAL TV STATION WITH SLOGAN OF CAMPAIGN

"EITHER THEY GO TO THE HAGUE OR WE GO TO HELL"

UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION (ARCHIVE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (BOSNIAN FEDERATION TV - No use

Bosnia and Herzegovina)

82. FOOTAGE SAID TO SHOW MLADIC DANCING

83. FOOTAGE SAID TO SHOW MLADIC WITH COUPLE AND BABY IN HOUSE

When arrested in 2011, Mladic looked nothing like the burly general in camouflage who ruffled the hair of a Srebrenica boy in 1995. He suffered a heart attack in 2013 and seemed older than his years. By his own account, he felt like a frail old man.

In his few court appearances, he wavered between self-pity, smiling defiance and vague distraction.

BELGRADE, SERBIA (ARCHIVE - MAY 26, 2011) (REUTERS - Access all)

84. THEN SERBIAN PRESIDENT, BORIS TADIC, WALKING TO GIVE STATEMENT

85. (SOUNDBITE) (English) THEN SERBIAN PRESIDENT, BORIS TADIC, SAYING:

"On behalf of the Republic of Serbia, I announce that today we arrested Ratko Mladic. Extradition process is underway."

LAZAREVO, SERBIA (ARCHIVE - MAY 26, 2011) (REUTERS - Access all)

86. ROAD SIGN TO LAZAREVO, WHERE MLADIC WAS ARRESTED, WITH PIECE OF PAPER ON IT

AND SIGN READING (Serbian): "RATKO, HERO"

87. POLICE PATROLLING AREA, PEOPLE WALKING BY

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - MAY 27, 2011) (REUTERS - Access all)

88. EXTERIOR OF JAIL

89. WINDOW WITH FENCE

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - MAY 27, 2011) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ICTY - Access

all) (MUTE)

90. CORRIDOR INSIDE JAIL

91. VIEW THROUGH CELL DOOR WINDOW

92. CELL INTERIOR WITH TV SET, COMPUTER, BED AND SINK

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - MAY 31, 2011) (REUTERS - Access all)

93. CONVOY CARRYING MLADIC DRIVING THROUGH ONE SET OF DOORS INSIDE INTERNATIONAL

CRIMINAL COURT DETENTION CENTRE

THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - JUNE 3, 2011) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ICTY - Access

all)

94. MLADIC STANDING IN COURT FOR FIRST HEARING

95. JUDGES AND COURT OFFICIALS SITTING

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - JANUARY 28, 2014) (REUTERS - Access all)

96. EXTERIOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (ARCHIVE - NOVEMBER 22, 2017) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ICTY -

Access all)

97. MLADIC LISTENING AS PRESIDING JUDGE READS OUT CHARGES

98. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDING JUDGE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ALPHONS ORIE, SAYING (SOUNDBITE STARTS WITH SHOT OF

MLADIC LISTENING AND CONTINUES WITH SHOTS OF COURTROOM):

"The indictment charged two counts of genocide and five counts of crimes against

humanity, namely: prosecution, murder, extermination, deportation and the

inhumane act of forcible transfer."

99. (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) ACCUSED, RATKO MLADIC, SPEAKING OVER ORIE AND SAYING:

"I am very excited because what you have said is a total lie. Fuck that court.

Everything is a lie what you said! You are waging wars in Asia and Afri...

(sound is cut)"

100. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDING JUDGE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ALPHONS ORIE, SAYING (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOT

OF COURTROOM):

"We adjourn, Mr. Mladic will be removed from the courtroom."

101. MLADIC SHOUTING INSULTS TO JUDGE

102. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDING JUDGE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ALPHONS ORIE, SAYING:

"For having committed these crimes, the chamber sentences Mr Ratko Mladic to

life imprisonment."

SREBRENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (ARCHIVE - NOVEMBER 22, 2017) (REUTERS - Access all)

103. WIVES AND MOTHERS OF SREBRENICA MASSACRE VICTIMS WATCHING COURT SESSION ON TV AND REACTING TO VERDICT AGAINST MLADIC