He spent most of his military career in the Yugoslav People's Army in Macedonia. In May 1992, Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic made Mladic, now a lieutenant-general, commander of the Bosnian Serb army, a position he held until December 1996. His troops seized most of Bosnia, laid siege to the capital Sarajevo for 43 months and executed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after capturing the eastern enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.
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