Ratko Mladic Buried in Serbia Amid EU Pressure
Convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic was buried in Belgrade without state or military honors as thousands gathered to pay their respects.
KEY POINTS
- Ratko Mladic died in The Hague last week and was buried in Belgrade on Monday.
- The funeral took place without state or military honors due to EU pressure.
- Thousands of people gathered in Serbia to say goodbye to the convicted war criminal.
- Serbian state officials did not attend the commemoration or the funeral.
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander serving a life sentence for genocide and war crimes, was buried in Belgrade on Monday. His body was flown back to Serbia from The Hague last Thursday after he died there last week.
An association of retired generals organized a commemoration for Mladic at the Belgrade Army Hall on Saturday, which Serbian state officials did not attend. The funeral proceeded without military or state honors, top officials including President Aleksandar Vucic did not attend, and there was no gun salute or honor guard.
The funeral preparations took place as European pressure mounted on Serbia over developments Brussels characterized as the glorification of Mladic. Serbian authorities rejected the accusations that the events glorified the war criminal.
Despite the lack of official honors and Brussels' demands for a sober funeral, thousands of people gathered to bid farewell to Mladic, marking one of the largest public burials in Serbia in decades.
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