“Any Glorification of War Criminals Has No Place in the EU Candidate Countries”
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The European Union has reacted after the death of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska, sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement by the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU expresses solidarity with the victims, survivors and their families, describing the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the Western Balkans as “among Europe’s …
GRLIĆ Radman assessed the glorification of Ratko Mladić as an insult to the victims and an act incompatible with EU values.
Any glorification of war criminals, denial of genocide and revisionism contradicts the most basic European values and has no place for them either in the European Union or in the countries that are candidates for membership in that bloc, said today the spokesperson of the European Commission, Christian Wigand, on the occasion of the death of Hague prisoner Ratko Mladić.
Ratko Mladić was complicit in the death of thousands. In Belgrade the war criminal, whose name is inseparably linked to the Srebrenica massacre, gets a big funeral.
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