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Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb commander found guilty of genocide, dies in prison

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Democracy Dies in Darkness
By Roy Gutman

As a reporter at Newsday, Gutman won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his coverage of the war in Bosnia.

On the day he took command of the Bosnian Serb army with a mission to divide the Bosnian republic along rigid ethnic lines, Gen. Ratko Mladic warned the Bosnian Serb political leadership that they were embarking on a vast criminal enterprise.

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