In Belgrade, thousands gathered to honor Ratko Mladic — a man convicted by an international tribunal of orchestrating the murder of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica — with military ceremony and the presence of senior government ministers. The European Union, the United Kingdom, and Bosnia each responded with diplomatic protest, summoning envoys and expelling diplomats. What unfolded was not merely a funeral but a collision between two incompatible narratives of recent European history: one that demands accountability, and one that refuses it. The question now before Serbia is whether a
EU and UK condemn glorification of war criminal Mladic at Belgrade funeral
The funeral honored a commander responsible for the Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed, causing ongoing pain to victims' families.