Ana Mladić

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Ana Mladić (born 1971 in Skopje, Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia — died April, 1994 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) was the only daughter of Serbian General Ratko Mladić.

Born in the early 1970s while her father was stationed in Macedonia, she is remembered as a pretty, studious girl, and one of the brightest students at the prestigious University of Belgrade medical school.

In February 1994, during her final year at the university, she took a trip with her class to Russia. Her father was against the idea, but family members assured him she would be fine, so he relented. When she returned, her friends noticed a distinct change in her personality. "She complained of an unbearable headache in Russia. She had never had one before". "There were arguments, however. Some criticized her father's role in the war in Bosnia. She defended her father's honor loyally". "She seemed like a different person."

In March of that same year, the Belgrade weekly NIN published an article by Gajo Petković (former editor-in-chief of the Yugoslav Army's periodical) in which Ratko Mladić was presented in a very unfavorable light. This article reportedly upset Ana, and upon reading it she called her father, suggesting that after graduation she be allowed to come to Sarajevo and treat wounded Serbs at the hospital on Kasindolska Street. Noting her melancholy state, her father gave his tentative approval.

A month later, at the age of 23, she committed suicide, shooting herself in the head with her father's favorite pistol. She is reported to have left a note, but its contents have not been disclosed. Pathologist Zoran Stanković performed the autopsy on 23-year-old Ana, and later said the general asked for his daughter's hair and the bullet from her head. She was buried in Topčider, her funeral attended by numerous state officials and covered by the international news media.