Ratko Mladić, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a UN-designated 'safe area' of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War 2, died on Thursday in United Nations custody.
The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmination of a war that had lasted more than three years, in which the general pounded the besieged capital Sarajevo daily with the artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns of his nationalist Serb army, killing 10,000.
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 to hide evidence of the killings.
The goal, as determined by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal, no question marks, no 'here is', no hedging adverbs.