nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ffb3e869424c4f72 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260918s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ffb3e869424c4f72 doi eng 342 23 Pistan, Carna Author aut A Graveyard for Europeanisation - Ratko Mladić’s Hero Burial in Belgrade and Serbia’s Unresolved Past Pistan, Carna Verfassungsblog 2026-09-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 7 September 2026, Ratko Mladić was buried in Belgrade. Known to the world as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” the former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska had died ten days earlier in The Hague, while serving a life sentence for international crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Yet despite these crimes, Mladić did not return to Serbia as a convicted war criminal. He returned as a national hero. Mladić’s controversial funeral was a manifestation of a broader politics of memory denying war crimes and glorifying their perpetrators. CC BY-SA 4.0 1990s Wars EU EU Mladić Serbia Serbien Srebrenica genocide (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU (DE-588)4054598-2 gnd Serbien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-graveyard-for-europeanisation/ raw object