Thousands of mourners on Monday gathered at a church in Belgrade for the funeral of Ratko Mladic, who died in The Hague, Netherlands, on August 27 while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The European Union heavily criticised the decision to hold a public funeral service with Marta Kos, the bloc's enlargement commissioner, having cancelled an upcoming visit to Serbia in protest.
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes, was buried after a public funeral service on Monday as Serbia defied European Union warnings against paying public homage to the man found guilty of the continent’s first case of genocide since World War II.
