War criminal Rakto Mladić given hero’s funeral in Serbia
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The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Rakto Mladić, who was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was given a hero’s funeral in Belgrade on Monday. Thousands gathered to pay their respects to the 84-year-old, who died last week in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was serving a life sentence. His coffin was flown to Belgrade on a government plane, where it was draped in the national flag. Mladic was the military commander of Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s, who fought against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak armies. Under his leadership, Bosnian Serb troops massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. They also enacted the four-year siege of Sarajevo in which 10,000 people died. But he remained a beloved figure among many Serbians and some politicians. The European Union ’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has cancelled her planned visit to the country in light of the funeral. Kos said on X that “the glorification surrounding his death is incompatible wi
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