Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, will be given a funeral with “military and state honours”, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said Friday. Mladic died Thursday in The Hague where he was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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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