Ratko Mladić: the War Criminal Who Became a Martyr for Bosnian Serbs
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Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs
To most of the world, he was the “Butcher of Bosnia”. A brutal murderer who wanted to eradicate Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in pursuit of an ethnically pure “Greater Serbia”. Ratko Mladić was the commander of the Bosnian Serb military during the Bosnian War of the 1990s. He orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which resulted in the deaths of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces. Mladić died in The Hague in lat…
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs were victims of a major disinformation campaign that demonized them, and such a narrative was revived after the death of General Ratko Mladić and his funeral, writes Frederic Sayot in an author's article for the French weekly "Valer Actual".
The Portuguese Foreign Minister considered today "extremely worrying" the "glorification" of the genocidal Ratko Mladic by the Serbian authorities and that the intention of the President, Aleksandar Vucic, to compete with the early October legislators "is not a positive sign".
The glorification of Ratko Mladić shows why international justice matters
Following the death of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić, Serbian authorities and officials participated in a series of commemorative events. The events have reignited questions about accountability, reconciliation and the role of international justice when perpetrators of grave crimes continue to be publicly honoured. Ratko Mladić died in The Hague on 27 August while serving […]
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