In Belgrade, thousands gathered to mourn a man the world's courts had condemned as a génocidaire — a moment that revealed how differently a single life can be written depending on which side of a war's wound you stand. Ratko Mladić, who died at 84 in a UN prison cell while serving a life sentence for the Srebrenica massacre, was carried home on a government plane and buried with the honors of a national hero, even as the European Union warned that such glorification has no place among civilized nations. The funeral did not merely mark the end of one man's life; it illuminated the unfinished, p
Thousands attend funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić in Belgrade
Mladić's forces killed approximately 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and over 10,000 people during the siege of Sarajevo, with survivors and victims' families expressing anguish at his glorification.