ANALYSIS
‘Direction Potocari’: From Srebrenica genocide to a Belgrade football match
Red Star fans honoured convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. Analysts say that’s nothing new – and that’s the problem.

Red Star fans honoured convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. Analysts say that’s nothing new – and that’s the problem.


![People gathered on a footbridge over a motorway light flares and hold a banner reading “Thank you general” as a convoy carrying the body of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic passes through Belgrade [AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-1788566265.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![People react in front of the picture of the deceased Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic outside the Orthodox Cathedral Christ the Savior in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 27, 2026. [REUTERS]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-1788120625.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



Ratko Mladic a Bosnian Serb war criminal, has died in prison aged 84.

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general known as the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, has died.
Ten newly identified victims were buried as the more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys killed were remembered.
Ratko Mladic filed the request to be released on health grounds last month, saying he only had a few months to live.
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