{"id":89821,"date":"2026-09-07T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:58:12","slug":"war-criminal-rakto-mladic-given-heros-funeral-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89821\/","title":{"rendered":"War criminal Rakto Mladi\u0107 given hero\u2019s funeral in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"War criminal Rakto Mladi\u0107 given hero\u2019s funeral in Serbia\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IratWO-Di1I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWar criminal Rakto Mladi\u0107 given hero\u2019s funeral in Serbia<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe \u2018Butcher of Bosnia\u2019 Rakto Mladi\u0107, who was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was given a hero\u2019s funeral in Belgrade on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands gathered to pay their respects to the 84-year-old, who died last week in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>His coffin was flown to Belgrade on a government plane, where it was draped in the national flag.<\/p>\n<p>Mladic was the military commander of Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s, who fought against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak armies.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, Bosnian Serb troops massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>They also enacted the four-year siege of Sarajevo in which 10,000 people died.<\/p>\n<p>But he remained a beloved figure among many Serbians and some politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union \u2019s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has cancelled her planned visit to the country in light of the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Kos said on X that \u201cthe glorification surrounding his death is incompatible with the values on which the EU path is built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serbia has been a candidate for EU membership since 2012, but plans have stalled under President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, due to democratic backsliding and the country\u2019s ties with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"War criminal Rakto Mladi\u0107 given hero\u2019s funeral in Serbia The \u2018Butcher of Bosnia\u2019 Rakto Mladi\u0107, who was convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[37318,6195,380,379,67673,70975,7118,30939,31746],"class_list":["post-89821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-belgrade","tag-funeral","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-mladic","tag-red-star-belgrade","tag-serbia","tag-the-hague","tag-war-criminal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117232042443412155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}