Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, has been the subject of recent reports claiming he has died while serving a life sentence for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and other crimes against humanity. Mladić was convicted in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his leadership during the Bosnian War, specifically for orchestrating the systematic killing of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.

While Al Jazeera has reported that Mladić has died, there is currently no official statement from the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the body responsible for overseeing his imprisonment. Mladić has suffered from documented health issues for several years, which his legal team frequently cited during his trial and subsequent appeals to request medical release or specialized care.

Because official sources have not yet verified the reports of his passing, the status of the former general remains unconfirmed by the judicial authorities in The Hague. The lack of an official statement has led to a period of uncertainty regarding the accuracy of the initial reports.