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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Croft

Anger as ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladic is given hero’s funeral in Serbia

  • EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has cancelled a planned visit to Serbia after the country gave convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic an elaborate military funeral.
  • Mladic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia , died aged 84 in a UN prison in The Hague , where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and war crimes .
  • His coffin was wrapped in a Serbian flag and carried by soldiers as his body lay in state in Belgrade, ignoring warnings from the European Union.
  • Ms Kos warned that glorifying Mladic is incompatible with EU values and reconciliation, putting Serbia's bid for EU membership at risk.
  • Serbia continues to refuse to acknowledge its role in the Balkan wars or recognise the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims as genocide.

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