Serbia faces EU scrutiny over upcoming funeral in Belgrade of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - The European Union is closely watching how membership candidate Serbia will handle the funeral of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The European Union is closely watching how membership candidate Serbia will handle the funeral of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic.
What happened
According to The EU's Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, the next few days "will be a very important test" after Mladic's remains were flown to Serbia on a administration plane Thursday from The Hague, Netherlands, after his death in a hospital there last week.
Mladic was sentenced in 2017 to life imprisonment for orchestrating the massacre of more than 8, 000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995; the yearslong siege of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 conflict; and other war crimes, including setting up concentration camps for detained non-Serb civilians and enemy soldiers.
The bottom line
For now, serbia faces EU scrutiny over upcoming funeral in Belgrade of convicted war remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.
