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Ratko Mladić, the 84-year-old Bosnian Serb commander convicted of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre, is reportedly near death after suffering a stroke in April 2026, prompting his lawyers to file an urgent petition for compassionate release from UN detention in The Hague. The case raises contested questions about whether international humanitarian law requires releasing a dying war criminal, set against a troubled history in which 65% of all ICTY-convicted persons have already been granted early release and Serbia sheltered Mladić as a fugitive for 16 years.