Thousands Attend Mladic Funeral in Belgrade Despite EU Criticism
Thousands attended the burial of Ratko Mladić as Serbian officials defended the ceremony and EU leaders condemned it as glorification of a convicted war criminal.
- 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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Thousands of Serbians attended the funeral of Ratko Mladic, known as the "Bosnian Butcher," who was convicted of genocide, amidst opposition from the EU which does not want him to be viewed as a hero.
A crowd paid tribute on Monday to the coffin of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, war crimes and convicted of his role in the Srebrenica Massacre in July 1995 — the worst massacre in Europe since the Second World War, which cost the lives of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and adolescents. The controversial funeral, held in Belgrade, provoked outrage in the international community.
After the Mass in honor of the so-called "Bio butcher", thousands of people accompanied the coffin on their way to the cemetery, located on the outskirts of Belgrade.
On Monday, the funerals of former Serbian-Bosnian commander Ratko Mladic, known as the “Boss butcher”, for having been one of the perpetrators of the Srebrenica Genocide, in 1995 (8,000 dead). Mladic died in prison at the age of 84, in The Hague, after having been sentenced to life imprisonment ... Continue reading “The ’Boss butcher’ is buried with honors in the midst of EU criticism for “glorifying” him”
Convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić has been buried in Serbia. Thousands of people said goodbye to him. It was one of the largest public funerals in Serbia in decades.
The President of Serbia had previously announced a larger turnout of people, which has met with criticism from the EU.
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