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The Sentencing Of A Monster

After a years-long trial, Ratko Mladic was given life in prison for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the legacy of the "Butcher of Bosnia."
Former Bosnian military chief Ratko Mladic appears for the pronouncement of the tribunal's judgment at The Hague on Wednesday.

You might think it's hard to look at a white-haired 74-year-old, with a halting step from strokes, and see a trace of the man charged with committing war crimes more than twenty years ago.

But Ratko Mladic made it easy. In the dock of the

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