18 September 2026
A Graveyard for Europeanisation
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.
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