Convicted War Criminal Ratko Mladić Receives Hero’s Burial in Serbia

Convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić, who died on August 27 while serving a life sentence for genocide, was buried in Belgrade on Monday with full military honours.

Mladić was responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide where his forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, an atrocity ruled as genocide by a UN court.

The funeral, attended by Russian Ambassador Alexandar Botsan-Kharchenko and Serbian officials, drew international condemnation from the EU and UN for the glorification of a convicted war criminal.