Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces who was sentenced to life in prison by the UN international tribunal for war crimes and genocide, has died in The Hague. He was 84, AP reports.

Mladic's death was reported by the Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television. According to them, he died in a hospital attached to the UN prison facility in The Hague. One of Mladic's relatives confirmed this information to the AP.

But representatives of the UN court have not yet been able to officially confirm the former general's death. Mladic had been in custody since 2011, after spending almost 16 years on the run. In 2017, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia had sentenced him to life in prison, finding him guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war.

Mladic was one of the top Bosnian Serb military leaders during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under his command, Serb forces had besieged Sarajevo and several other towns, established camps to hold Bosnian Muslims and Croats, and carried out mass killings.

The Bosnian war claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people and forced more than a million others to flee their homes. Mladic had become one of the most notorious indictees at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and spent many years on the run from justice.

Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia in 2011. After being transferred to The Hague, he stood trial, and in 2017 was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.