On a September morning in Belgrade, thousands gathered to honor Ratko Mladic — a man the world's courts had already named a génocidaire — with the full ceremony of a state funeral. His burial, organized by the Serbian government, arrives three decades after the international community built tribunals precisely to ensure that architects of mass atrocity could not escape history's judgment. That this moment is possible at all invites a sober reckoning: not merely with one nation's unresolved grief, but with the deeper question of whether international justice has ever truly deterred those who ho
Mladic's State Funeral Exposes International Justice's Limits
Mladic was convicted for the Srebrenica massacre killing over 8,000 men and boys, the starvation and bombardment of Sarajevo, and other crimes against humanity during the Bosnian wars.