In Serbia, thousands gathered to bury Ratko Mladić not as a convicted architect of genocide but as a national figure — a ceremony that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called shocking, and that Bosnia answered by expelling Serbian diplomats. The Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were killed, remains one of the defining atrocities of modern European history, and the manner of Mladić's burial forces a reckoning with a question that the Balkans has never fully resolved: how a society chooses to remember those who committed violence in its name. The fu
EU condemns 'shocking' funeral of Ratko Mladić as Serbia honors Balkan war criminal
Mladić was convicted of orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities during the Bosnian War that killed thousands of civilians.