Serbian war criminal Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'
Convicted genocidaire Ratko Mladić has died at the age of 84 in a UN prison in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence. He was found guilty of leading the siege of Sarajevo and orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered. His planned burial with national honours has sparked sharp divisions in Serbia.
Serbian justice minister Nenad Vujic announced on Friday that former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes in The Hague, will be accorded "state honours" upon his burial. Mladic, 69, had suffered multiple strokes in recent months and was convicted for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
The minister confirmed that Serbian officials are prepared to travel to The Hague to collect Mladic's remains once authorities release the body. The war, which claimed around 100,000 lives and displaced 2.2 million people, saw Mladic as the military leader of a brutal trio under former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
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