DUBLIN — Serbia’s public commemorations for convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić risk undermining the country’s relationship with the EU, the bloc has warned ahead of the funeral of the man dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia.”

The use of a state aircraft, a minister’s presence and military honours have made the return of the convicted commander’s body a test of Serbia’s official posture towards the wars of the 1990s.

Mladić was the commander of Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. During the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, he was directly responsible for the execution of at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys,

Ratko Mladić was a war criminal who died in detention last week in The Hague. But ahead of Serbia’s elections, President Aleksandar Vučić’s party shied away from criticizing the ethnonationalist general’s legacy.

Serbia’s pro-government newspaper Politika has published an openly laudatory obituary for Ratko Mladić, portraying the convicted war criminal and genocide perpetrator as a national hero, defe

Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general convicted of genocide, will be buried with the “highest military and state honors,” Serbia’s Minister of Justice Nenad Vujić announced Friday, according to the country’s state-run broadcaster. Mladić, 84 ...

Bosnia remains a country divided by contrasting histories and narratives about the war. Mladić is a symbolic reminder of this.