War criminal Ratko Mladic close to death, lawyers seeking release from jail say

Mladic commanded Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) armies, during a war in which his troops committed “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, besieged the main city of Sarajevo with the deaths of more than 10,000 people, and carried out the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica.