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POLITICSELEVATED2h ago · Sep 7, 2026, 2:18 PM

War criminal Mladic buried with military honours in Serbia despite EU warnings

South China Morning Post · eastern europe

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes, was buried on Monday with military honours and crowds attending as Serbia defied European Union warnings against allowing public homage to the man found guilty of the continent’s first case of genocide since World War II. Thousands of mourners started arriving early at the small Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Luke in Belgrade to honour Mladic as his body lay in state. Mladic is still viewed as a hero...

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