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Article snippet: His victims call him the Butcher of Bosnia. His defenders say he was a nationalist trying to defend his people as Yugoslavia collapsed. Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, was convicted of war crimes on Wednesday over the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s — Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. His trial, which began in 2012, was the last to be handled by the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in response to the atrocities. Here are some in-depth articles from The Times’s archive about the man who shaped the image of the Balkans in war and in peace: A Times correspondent profiled Mr. Mladic in 1994, as the general and Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, became increasingly isolated in their rejection of an international peace plan for Bosnia. “Mladic’s first name, Ratko, is a diminutive of Ratimir (War or Peace) or Ratislav (War of Slavs). Ratko is a name typically given a male baby in wartime. The general, 51, refuses to be identified in any way with the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, created in April 1992 as an independent and multiethnic state and recognized by the United States and the European Community.” Forces led by Mr. Mladic kept Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, under a deadly siege for nearly four years. Some troops shelled their own homes in the city. Thousands lived in fear during those years, facing the daily threat of being hit by snipers. More than 10,000 people died on all sides. That was the promise made by... Link to the full article to read more