Serbia considers military funeral for Mladic
Ratko Mladić, the former military commander of Bosnian Serbs and convicted of war crimes during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, died in his prison in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence. The Serbian government announced that Mladić would be honored both militarily and ceremonially, and that he would be buried in Belgrade at the Topčider cemetery, alongside his daughter who died in 1994. The International Criminal Tribunal convicted him in 2017 of genocide and crimes against humanity, most notably the Srebrenica massacre, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. He was captured in 2011 after fleeing for 16 years. In Serbia and among Bosnian Serbs, he is viewed positively despite his conviction, as a figure of national symbolism. He passed away after a critical health condition, following the rejection of his family's request to transfer him to a hospital in Belgrade for treatment.
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