In Belgrade, the return of Ratko Mladic's flag-draped coffin has forced Serbia to confront a question that nations rarely answer cleanly: how does a society bury a man it never fully agreed to condemn? Mladic, convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the Bosnian War, died at 85 in a Hague prison cell, yet arrived home to banners and tabloid eulogies. The tension between Serbian law, European expectations, and a deeply divided public reveals not merely a dispute over funeral protocol, but a civilization's unfinished reckonin
Serbia grapples with Mladic funeral as international pressure mounts
Over 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed in Srebrenica genocide; hundreds of thousands of victims across the region including rape, torture, and forced displacement survivors.