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Mladić was born in [[Božanovići]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/boe_icty_161104.pdf|title=Financial Sanctions: International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia|format=PDF|accessdate=3 June 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023173705/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/boe_icty_161104.pdf|archivedate=23 October 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> on 12 March 1943.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtrs.tv/tv/mladic.php|title=Генерал РАТКО МЛАДИЋ Биографија|publisher=RTRS Public Enterprise Radio and Television of the Republic of Serbia|accessdate=30 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bulatovic|first=Ljiljana|title=General Mladic|year=2001|publisher=Evro|page=181|quote={{lang|sr|Висок, снажан професионални војник и официр армије рођен је у селу Калиновику у југоисточној Босни 12. марта 1943.}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Janjić|first=Jovan|title=Srpski general Ratko Mladić|year=1996|publisher=Matica srpska|page=15|quote={{lang|sr|Ратко Младић рођен је 12. марта 1943. године, у селу Божиновићи код Калиновика.}}}}</ref>
His father Neđa (1909–1945) was a member of the [[Yugoslav Partisans]]. His mother, Stana (née Lalović; 1919–2003), raised her three children; daughter Milica (born 1940), sons Ratko and Milivoje (1944–2001), by herself after the death of her husband in 1945 during World War II. Bosnia and Herzegovina was at the time part of the [[Independent State of Croatia]], a fascist puppet state led by the Croatian [[Ustaše]] between 1941 and 1945, installed by [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]] after having invaded and partitioned the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] in 1941. Mladić's father Neđa was killed in action (on Mladić's third birthday) while leading a Partisan attack on the [[Bradina, Konjic|home village]] of Ustaše leader [[Ante Pavelić]] in 1945.<ref>Adam Lebor, "Milosevic: A Biography", p. 4.</ref>
Upon finishing elementary school, Mladić worked in [[Sarajevo]] as a [[whitesmith]] for the Tito Company. He entered the Military Industry School in [[Zemun]] in 1961. He then went on to the KOV Military Academy and the Officers Academy thereafter. Upon graduating on 27 September 1965, Mladić began his career in the [[Yugoslav People's Army]].<ref name="nybooks1995">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/oct/05/the-madness-of-general-mladic |title=The Madness of General Mladic by Robert Block |magazine=The New York Review of Books |access-date=26 May 2011|last1=Block |first1=Robert }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/22/serbia.mladic/index.html |title=Mladic now Balkan's most wanted |publisher=CNN |access-date=26 May 2011 |date=22 July 2008}}</ref> In the same year he joined the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], remaining a member until the party disintegrated in 1990.<ref name="nybooks1995"/>
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