Convicted War Criminal Mladić Still Revered by Some Bosnian Serbs

Mladic was convicted for genocide and war crimes including the Srebrenica massacre, which resulted in thousands of deaths during the Bosnian War.

Three decades after the guns fell silent in Bosnia, hundreds gathered in 2026 to honor Ratko Mladić — a man the international community convicted of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacre and broader atrocities of the 1990s war. That such a tribute could draw crowds speaks not to any ambiguity in the legal record, but to the enduring power of contested memory in societies where war's wounds have never fully closed. Courts can pronounce verdicts, yet they cannot legislate how communities grieve, remember, or assign meaning to their own suffering — and in the Balkans, that unresolved r

Convicted War Criminal Mladić Still Revered by Some Bosnian Serbs

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