Body of War Criminal Mladic Lies in State in Serbian Capital Ahead of Funeral – WTOP News
Thousands gathered as Serbia prepared full military honors for Ratko Mladic, whose conviction for genocide and war crimes remains a source of EU criticism.
- On Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, the body of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic lay in state at the St. Luke Church in Belgrade as thousands of mourners gathered to honor the convicted war criminal who died last week.
- Mladic died at 84 on Aug. 27 while serving a life sentence for genocide, including orchestrating the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.
- Despite international condemnation, the Serbian government sent a plane to bring Mladic's remains to Belgrade, with soldiers carrying the flag-draped coffin as Patriarch Porfirije, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, prepared to lead the funeral with full military honors.
- European Union enlargement commissioner Marta Kos canceled a planned visit to protest the glorification, while President Aleksandar Vucic dismissed the criticism, accusing Kos of "lying" amid rising tensions.
- Vucic, who is not attending the funeral, has stepped up anti-Western rhetoric ahead of a high-stakes early parliamentary election expected next month as Serbia's European Union bid remains stalled due to democratic backsliding.
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welingelichtekringen.nlBELGRADE (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Crowds have gathered in Serbian Belgrade in the run-up to the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. Reporters speak of thousands of people who have come together at the church where Mladić is lying in state to pay their last respects. Several...
The coffin of former South General Ratko Mladic, who died in The Hague prison on August 27 while serving his life sentence for genocide, is on display in a remote Belgrade church, with fodder, a saber and his military honors, writes BTA. The former commander of the Republika Srpska Army will be buried today, September 7, in Belgrade, and his coffin is on display in the Church of St. Luke in Belgrade's Vidikovac district. Citizens will be able to…
Serbia did not announce a state funeral for Ratko Mladic, but essentially the state did almost everything that would accompany such an act, media in the region wrote today, stating that the death of a war criminal could be the last opportunity to draw a clear line in Serbia between respect for the dead and glorification of a man legally convicted of genocide.
Hundreds of people have already gathered in Belgrade for the funeral of former Bosnian Serb army leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic. He died in late August at the age of 84 in prison in Scheveningen. He will be buried this afternoon. Among those attending the service are family members, former military personnel, officials, and the Serbian Minister of Justice, Nenad Vujic. It is formally not a state funeral; the European Union wanted to preven…
Thousands of mourners gather in Belgrade for war criminal Mladic's funeral
Thousands of mourners on Monday gathered at a church in Belgrade to view the body of Ratko Mladic, who died in The Hague, Netherlands, on August 27 while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The European Union has heavily criticised the event, and Marta Kos, the bloc's enlargement commissioner, cancelled an upcoming visit to Serbia in protest.
Body of war criminal Mladic lies in state in Serbian capital ahead of
A man touches the cross as Serbian national military servicemen stand around the coffin of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, at the St. Luka Church, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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