Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, born 12 March 1942) is a convicted war criminal and a Bosnian Serb colonel-general and who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).