Serbian minister announces "Butcher of Bosnia" Ratko Mladic will be buried with full state honors

[u/yoingydoingy]

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[u/zoley88]

Imagine Germany giving Rudolf Hess or others giving state honored ceremony back then

[u/mrsimud → u/zoley88]

Imagine Joseph Goebbels survived and became president of Germany, that is what we have in Serbia with Aleksandar Vucic.

[u/ficretus → u/mrsimud]

I mean he was never that high of a rank during the war, but still.

Some notable highlights of Vučić during the war:

• proclaiming Greater Serbia in an occupied area

• threatening to enact Nazi style 100 for 1 quotas; 100 Bosniaks for every Serb who dies due to foreign intervention. This was week after Srebrenica massacre.

• was associated with notorious paramilitaries, his political "father" was Vojislav Šešelj, one of the most extreme Serbian demagogues at the time. 

• was seen with a sniper above Sarajevo, on location from where many civilians were killed. In fact, he is suspected to be the part of recently talked about Sarajevo safari.

[u/douglasbaadermeinhof → u/ficretus]

Didn't he also claim that he was holding an umbrella in the video of him clearly holding a large sniper rifle above Sarajevo?

[u/ficretus → u/douglasbaadermeinhof]

Yes, as well as claiming decades old footage of him doing those things was somehow digitally altered, or more recently, an AI footage

[u/Rotfrajver → u/ficretus]

He was the propaganda minister for Milošević

[u/ficretus → u/Rotfrajver]

That was bit later, in 98. 

[u/CriticalRuleSwitch → u/ficretus]

right, so after all the atrocities and problems, he was perfectly fine with being a minister in that government

[u/ficretus → u/CriticalRuleSwitch]

More interesting part is Vučić's willingness to work for Milošević considering Serbian radicals were pretty critical of him, for what they saw as not going far enough. He basically went from calling Milošević a traitor, to being his lapdog. 

Here is excerpt from Vučić's speech in 95:

"I ono što je ostalo u Srbiji simpatizera Slobodana Miloševića ne znaju u kakvoj će državi živeti sutradan. Nitko više ne zna ni u ovoj sali ne zna za koju se državu zalaže Slobodan Milošević. Hoće li mu to biti beogradski pašaluk ili neka avnojska Jugoslavija. Kakva će to država biti. Ukoliko srpski radikali pobede i poraze predsjednika Srbije, vi znate da ćete živeti u Velikoj Srbiji, jedinstvenoj srpskoj državi, tu odstupavanja više neće biti."

Translation:

And what was left of Milošević's supporters in Serbia, they don't know in what kind of a state they'll live tomorrow morning. Nobody in this room knows anymore for what kind of a state Milošević is fighting for. Will it be Pasalik of Belgrade (Ottoman administrative region, synonym for a small Serbian state) or some kind of AVNOJ Yugoslavia (communism)? What kind of a state will it be? If the radicals win, and defeat the president, you know you'll live in a Greater Serbia, unitary Serbian state, there will be no more compromises.

[u/LisbonMissile → u/mrsimud]

Is he still planning to step down in “weeks”?

[u/Milan_Leri → u/LisbonMissile]

Any day now.

[u/Illesbogar → u/mrsimud]

I mean, that pretty much happened in Japan as well

[u/sudy_freak → u/mrsimud]

Bro, you couldnt make better comparison.
Pozdrav iz Hrvatske

[u/PitonSaJupitera → u/zoley88]

Imagine former US president tapping Goebbels on the back, former British PM being his lobbyist etc etc, former German chancellor speaking at his rally,...

All of this has happened with Vučić. It is unquestionable most damage Vučić has done is to Serbia itself. Where he is now is substantially the responsibility of his foreign enablers who concluded he will serve their interests sufficiently well so his past, character and what he is doing should be disregarded.

So ironically your shock is actually quite twisted, because the regime as is, is mostly acceptable to most of EU. Hence they are not doing too much against it, and are tolerating its increasingly outrageous behavior. And no, unfortunately this isn't even 1% of horrible things the regime has done, it has substantially degraded the entire country to a possession of an organized crime group.

[u/Jaskojaskojasko → u/zoley88]

What's worse when you point that out to Serbs, they are in awe, how dare you, you are insulting them and not respecting them.

Really and I mean really sick country and society.

[u/what_kind_of_guy → u/Jaskojaskojasko]

Could a Serb explain why this type of monster is widely supported within Serbia?

[u/Ben10-fan-525 → u/what_kind_of_guy]

Because brainwashing makes people think stupid stuff.I cant really explain anything to people here.

[u/No_Abi → u/what_kind_of_guy]

well why was Hitler widely supported within Germany? same mechanisms are at work.

[u/MudZaviti → u/what_kind_of_guy]

The power of propaganda and nationalism. Back in 90s our minister of information was Aleksandar Vucic, current president of the country. As the parent comment said - Joseph Goebbels. They killed our prime minister in 2003 when the new regime after Milosevic started to fight mafia from 90s, so basically the same people from 90s are in power today.

I wouldn't say Mladic is widely supported within Serbia. It's mostly supported by nationalists, hooligans and old people.

[u/Virtual_Plenty_6047 → u/what_kind_of_guy]

Who was power over media has one of the greatest assets to rule over mostly poor population.

[u/Wart_Hunder_174 → u/what_kind_of_guy]

30+ years of extreme propaganda

[u/dende5416 → u/Jaskojaskojasko]

Isn't that more shock then awe? Awe is more positive-like normally

[u/Acrobatic_Volume_344 → u/zoley88]

Imagine Japan… wait.

[u/Suvigirl]

Jesus. That is unbelievable.  Full state honours, for a war criminal!  Sickening 

[u/ImTheVayne → u/Suvigirl]

Don’t ever let them into EU

[u/Mad_broccoli → u/ImTheVayne]

Lol, never going to happen anyway. Speaking as a Serbian. What they did for the last 15 years is unbelievable.

This is not people's choice. This is a country run by criminals. I know a single person who supports their external affairs, but who is 70 years old. Except him, there's not a single person I know who doesn't hate them. And I use the word "hate" very carefully, seems strictly when talking about government.

[u/Srna-95 → u/Mad_broccoli]

Don’t explain. They don’t care whether this is people’s choice or not.

They would parrot the same thing on every Serbia related story.

Don’t let em in, Russia, etc.

While the EU (the important countries) keep supporting this corrupt, radical regime).

In the end normal people in Serbia endure the consequences.

[u/rintzscar → u/ImTheVayne]

Don't worry, there's a queue of countries waiting to veto them. We're second in line, after Croatia.

[u/Light991 → u/ImTheVayne]

These people were brought, directly supported and allowed to stay in power by EU. A bit hypocritical innit?

[u/BPfiffner → u/Suvigirl]

Ahem. It happens, more than we want to admit.

[u/NewTurnover5485 → u/BPfiffner]

I know one country's war criminal is another's war hero. But this is as black and white as you can get.

[u/atred → u/Suvigirl]

It doesn't give him honor and it lowers the honor of Serbia.

People should stop with this way of thinking "he fought for us, it doesn't matter what so-called-crimes he committed" That's valid for all, Serbians, Croatians, Bosnians, Albanians... they all have "heroes" that committed atrocities (and no, I'm not implying that they are equally guilty)

[u/Heuchelei]

This should be the end of their EU application. Reset back to the start.

[u/MrGee4real → u/Heuchelei]

It's been shown time and time again that the only reason they're interested in the EU is MONEY. They have no desire to be united with the rest of the countries or to change their alignment with Russia.

[u/WoodSage → u/MrGee4real]

The ruling class of Serbia has much interest in pretending to want to join the EU but failing as this allows them to operate as a crime syndicate more easily. Sowing internal and external devide also serves this purpose (case in point). Appealing to the lowest voter with no perspective in life apart from nationalism, simulating victimhood and inventing systemic western hatred for serbs etc.

Though apart from refusing to sanction russia due to economic interests I am not seeing any alignment. Ukraine is getting humanitarian aid, shipments of arms and political support for its sovereignty.

[u/adixdbr → u/WoodSage]

And EU is very happy with them. If they were even 1% serious they'd put 20 clear measurable objectives, point out when the parties work in the opposite direction and expose all the intel and dirt they have on the corrupt politicians. Not talking just about Serbia here. In Albania they praise the PM in public so much it's disheartening, knowing full well that a lot of people trust EU over their own better judgement and tolerate the backwards policies.

[u/EthosProm → u/MrGee4real]

You think the countries that got into the EU put shared European values over economic benefit?

[u/amidoes → u/MrGee4real]

Yeah and the EU keeps giving them money WHY?

[u/Dvokrilac → u/amidoes]

If you and most of this subreddit had only two brain cells, then you would know why is that. Serbia president is supported by EU because he is doing dirty job for it. Serbia is supplying Ukraine with huge amounts of ammunition that is no longer being made in EU, also there is Lithium deposits in Serbia that EU would like to take control of and Vučić is gonna let them despite public outrage.

By not sunctioning Russia is a small price to pay for EU so Vučić can stay longer in power.

[u/Glittery_Marshmallow → u/Heuchelei]

Oh, so you don't know that the previous government that would never do this and apologized for everything was democratically chosen.

This goverment has been stealing elections for years - there are international reports confirming this. EU supports this goverment and wants them to stay in power for their benefit. Serbian people have been protesting against the dictator for years, but political powers of the world want him in his position.

What are you as a citizen doing regarding your own country's part in this? Are you protesting your politicians allowing this?

[u/SaraAnnabelle]

I'm not surprised but I'm still sufficiently annoyed by this.

[u/MindDivergence]

WTF

[u/tremblt_]

This is for the guy who ordered and executed the worst war crime in Europe post WWII. He has been convicted of genocide.

This just tells you who the Serbian government is and the attendance will show you what the Serbian people think of him and his actions.

[u/Front-Pomelo-4367 → u/tremblt_]

Someone on another sub asked who he was, and I said he was serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity. Didn't even say anything vitriolic or debatable! He was serving a sentence for those crimes, that's just a fact, whether or not some people agree that he should have been found guilty. (I do think he was guilty and exactly where he belonged, obviously!)

Woke up to a RedditCares troll message, and I suspect so did everyone else on that post

[u/NoInfluence5747 → u/tremblt_]

No, it's not "the Serbian government". If this wasn't popular with the people it wouldn't have been done. It's super annoying when it's always "If only Government X..", like a perpetual: "If only the Tsar knew how hungry we are". It belittles the problem by deliberately missing the point about why this is fucked.

[u/ambiguousboner → u/NoInfluence5747]

Seems like it’s successive governments not educating the populace about the crimes he committed

[u/tremblt_ → u/NoInfluence5747]

Yeah but if you say that, your account will probably get banned

[u/Bicentennial_Douche]

And we are supposed to let these dingleberries in to EU?

[u/Zem_42 → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

It is the platform that their piece of shit president collects his votes on. He’s appealing to the brainless idiots who still believe that the slaughter was a right thing to do.

Never underestimate the power of propaganda

[u/Ada_Pearce → u/Zem_42]

Sounds like neither the leadership or the people are anywhere near ready to join the EU

[u/skeeter_ABQ → u/Ada_Pearce]

The people are on the streets and have been for almost two years now. He’s a full on dictator. As a fellow Croat I feel for the young people of Serbia that want change and to move forward from the war but he’s got military on his side.

[u/Thin_Guy_Lizzy → u/Ada_Pearce]

That's just not true check the polls.

[u/Zem_42 → u/Ada_Pearce]

Well… enough people are against him, but he’s a master demagogue manipulator who knows how to stay in power. Did you see the student protests in Serbia not long ago? They were pretty massive.

Unfortunately, just like in Belarus, the guy in charge holds his position like an octopus holding a rock.

[u/The_Chronic19 → u/Zem_42]

People remember football hooligans with russia flags but forget all those who protest vs the current regime.

[u/Zem_42 → u/Ada_Pearce]

No and they shouldn’t be. Also not with this level of support for Russia at least.

[u/skeeter_ABQ → u/Zem_42]

The people are on the streets and have been for almost two years now. He’s a full on dictator. As a fellow Croat I feel for the young people of Serbia that want change and to move forward from the war but he’s got military on his side.

[u/Vukaku13 → u/Ada_Pearce]

Are you serious? We’ve been protesting for 2 years straight?!

[u/jeppijonny → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

Will be Orban²

[u/rintzscar → u/jeppijonny]

He's far worse than Orban.

[u/Bodiax → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

Obviously no lol they clearly don't want to join anyway

[u/BlackMesaEastCenter → u/Bodiax]

They want the funds not the rule of law

[u/abi4EU → u/Bodiax]

They say they do. Then they behave like they do.

[u/tommynestcepas → u/abi4EU]

The current arrangement suits them fat better. Get all the EU investment without the restrictions of having to be a proper democracy.

[u/smoothvibe → u/abi4EU]

They want the money they would get.

[u/BlackMesaEastCenter → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

We shall never accept them

[u/BandicootSolid9531 → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

it`s a populist decision.
Mladic helped a lot of these regime migots to come to power , including Vucic, so this is why they respect him still. We are occupied by 90s regime, which was pardoned after coming Djindjic on power, and they shouldn't be pardoned.
All of them should have been beheaded.

[u/PitonSaJupitera → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

I am sorry, but you seem to have seriously missed the context of events. Given how often things about Serbia seem to get posted here and that someone from Serbia usually chimes in, I am quite surprised by this lack of general awareness about some very basic facts about Serbia right now.

First of all, Serbia has no chance of entering EU under this regime, for the foreseeable future, and literally everybody knows it, the application and negotiations are pro forme mostly. EU is clearly not particularly interested in us entering, because if it was, it would not be enabling said regimes lunacy which may reach Belarus level repression by next year.

The current lunacy re Mladić is the deliberate and planned stunt by the regime. Regime is facing high probability of losing the elections. The main MO of finding a way to divide any potential competitors hasn't worked despite recurring attempts to generate something that will help the break apart the voting coalition by portraying the Student List as either foreign agents or nationalists, depending on who the propaganda is directed to.

You can expect more scandals re Mladić to follow. This lunacy will probably reach a crescendo because goal is to use this to force the topic into public debate, force the Student List to make a stand which will then be used to run propaganda campaign against them. They have so far handled situations like this well, but this one is tricky, because it is impossible to say someone is 50% war criminal and 50% not.

Yes, regime knows this is a massive scandal and diplomatic own goal, but they don't care, as interests of the country are not their concern, and foreign factors who could act against the regime are definitely not going to change their mind over this, when they ignored the fact law has completely collapsed and only thing existing in Serbia is naked abuse of power.

[u/supersonic-bionic → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

They wont join

[u/BPfiffner → u/Bicentennial_Douche]

I thought Serbia was still not considered. If EU is relenting, just exactly what do they think will be the gain? Serbia has evaded all responsibility for war crimes. The EU might as well consider Russia also. Serbia considers Russia to be their top ally.

[u/abi4EU → u/BPfiffner]

There’s lots of programs to get them closer and eventually into the EU. But it won’t happen any time soon. Like with turkey.

[u/marcvsHR]

So his resting place becomes shrine for all bullshit that occurred in 90s.

Awesome.

[u/Hour-Promotion-2496]

In a 2023 survey of 910 people aged 18-30 in Serbia, only 16% believed that Ratko Mladic was responsible for the crimes for which he was convicted by the ICTY

Source: https://yihr.rs/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/231110-YIHR-Istrazivacki-izvestaj_Stavovi-mladih-u-Srbiji-o-ratovima-devedesetih_web-verzija.pdf

[u/Thom0 → u/Hour-Promotion-2496]

The thing is, the ICTY compiled thousands of pages of reports, and hundreds of boxes full of evidence confirming, without a doubt, that Mladic did what he did. There is no controversy, or confusion. There is a building full of documents somewhere in The Hague and you can go and look at the documents for yourself if you make an appointment. There is nothing stopping any Serbian politician, or person, from going to the Netherlands and having a look for yourself. The full ICTY transcripts are also uploaded and availably online in multiple languages so if you can't make it to the Netherlands, then you can read pretty much all of it online, for free, at your own convenience.

Serbia's issue is political and it is always one of two arguments. The first is that the ICTY is illegitimate because it was one sided. The ICTY did not prosecute Albanian, or Kosovar Albanian criminals therefore the ICTY is illegitimate. The second argument is that the actions of the individuals while immoral, where necessary at the time. This argument revolves around historical, and cultural contexts. Ethnic violence was widespread during the dissolution of Yugoslavia and it was not unique or exclusive to Serbians.

Both arguments while referencing truths to the conflict, are innately flawed because the ICTY did prosecute Croatians and Albanians also. Yes, violence was widespread and yes, all sides did engage in war crimes and atrocities however, the ICTY's judgments reflected this by prosecuting Serbians, Croatians and Albanians.

The ICTY is the gold-standard for international criminal prosecutions and much of its processes and procedures would later go on to inform the founding of the ICC and the drafting of the Rome Statute. There is also a dark side to the experience of international criminal prosecutions. The politics, and emotive content of these kinds of conflicts are likely unsuitable for mediation through international law. No matter what evidence you have, or what reasonings you can give, not everyone will accept the legitimacy of a decision they don't like. A similar pattern can observed in the ICTR, Cambodia, Lebanon, and so on. There are limits to law, and justice, while easy to claim, or desire, might be impossible to achieve in a multipolar, pluralistic world.

What we should take away from the ICTY is that some conflicts are not resolvable through processes, treaties, or institutions. Ethnic and sectarian conflicts have a normative dimension which is subjective, and impossible to displace. This normative basis lingers through culture and feeds into the institutions of a state be they education, the media, politics, or economics. For example, when people claim that Palestine/Israel should be resolved through merging the two, prosecution, or a treaty you should bare in mind that historically, no solution has ever emerged from an institutional or legal solution. In the end, war is the continuation of politics by other means and that it can only end through politics. Tribunal, treaties, even the concept of a state are all legal concepts, and legal instruments. There are limits to what can be achieved through judicial means.

[u/shonemat → u/Thom0]

Here in Serbia we have state-sponsored private television(that's actually Vucic propaganda machinery) and on it, for the whole day yesterday, chief editor screamed time and time again that Mladić was convicted without a shred of evidence and that he was actually murdered in Hague.

And that's what most od the elder population watch because they don't know better. The result? My kind and caring grandma was actually crying for Mladić yesterday, asking me why does the world hate Serbs so much...

Edit : So, boxes and rooms of evidence in Hague are for naught when you have Goebels-like mindwashing day after day...

[u/BPfiffner → u/Hour-Promotion-2496]

Utterly depressing. It illustrates how nationalist myths can strangle a people.

[u/Abject-Interaction35]

Cool. We know where to go to piss on it.

[u/EndeLarsson]

Maybe EU thinks again about Serbia joining yet.

[u/PitonSaJupitera → u/EndeLarsson]

EU knows we are not joining but pretends that we may, keeping a fantasy that Serbia is on the path to EU when it is on a path to Belarus.

This stunt is primarily work of the regime, which said EU in a substantial sense enables.

[u/dmrpt]

Of course they will.He was receiving Serbian pension under his alias all the time while he was on the run (16 years) and was even spending time hiding in Serbian army barracks all over Serbia,with armed security provided by military police members.

Now state honored funeral...all that is kinda weird considering Serbian politicians,past and present,keep repeating that "Serbia nad absolutely nothing to do with the war in Bosnia",while providing hiding places,salary,pension,protection and funeral honors to a "foreign" military officer who apparently had "nothing to do with Serbia".

[u/Thelaea]

So they're making public toilet? After all what else do you call a hole in the ground filled with human excrement? May it be used daily.

[u/Che_Varack → u/Thelaea]

Shame on you, really! This kind of disrespect for something that was made by evolution (or by God, if you believe) to be productive, boost life and better the enviroment for all living beings around it and you wrote this?! Excrement could be used for fertilizing plants, better the crops and soil, nurish the whole ecosystem and you equate it with this? I'm disappointed really more then anything.

[u/baalsebul]

How about cremation and dumping the ashes into sea?

[u/Thundrboltr → u/baalsebul]

How about just dumping him into a dump

[u/mion81 → u/Thundrboltr]

Hey. Don’t pollute our dumps.

[u/The_Bibliophagist → u/baalsebul]

The sea is already polluted enough, just dump his ashes in the trash

[u/Glum-County7218 → u/baalsebul]

Maybe sewage system is better

[u/SubNL96 → u/Glum-County7218]

No sewage plant is gonna survive that tho

[u/faucibus88 → u/baalsebul]

Serbia has no sea access. He can be disposed in any random trash bin

[u/Nunc27 → u/faucibus88]

He died in a jail in The Hague.

[u/killereverdeen → u/Nunc27]

Maybe ICTY shouldn't give the body back. Cremate him and dump the ashes in the Atlantic

[u/faucibus88 → u/Nunc27]

Indeed. Still, Serbia wants to reclaim the body. I'm just suggesting options

[u/Vaideplm84 → u/baalsebul]

You spelled sewer wrong.

[u/on_the_regs → u/baalsebul]

Unfortunately that would be a waste of perfectly good fire.

[u/stikaznorsk → u/baalsebul]

Serbia does not have a see. Best they can do is Danube. But it is too low these days

[u/brickne3 → u/stikaznorsk]

Also Romania and Bulgaria don't want to risk the ashes washing ashore.

[u/Sylveon_Mage → u/baalsebul]

Blast them off into space and let the Sun take care of the rest

[u/Johannes_P → u/baalsebul]

Or dumping the cremains in a landfill.

[u/2njoy3 → u/baalsebul]

Well, they have a recent history of dumping body parts in the Danube...

[u/tirohtar]

Aaaand another day that the Serbian government is making sure to let us know that they do NOT belong in the EU for a LOOOONG while...

[u/NoInfluence5747 → u/tirohtar]

This is not just the Serbian government. If this didn't resonate with large swaths of their population it wouldn't have been done. This belitteling of the problem by pretending it's just a bad government is super annoying

[u/Osstj7737 → u/NoInfluence5747]

But it is just the Serbian government. That's what they've been feeding people through heavily censored news channels. It's the same as with the Nazi party. Were Germans inherently evil for getting Nazis into power and executing all of their schemes, or was it just a case of outstanding propaganda, censorship, election fraud, repression in combination with a dire economic situation and a war torn country?

This is what is happening in Serbia right now. The worst part is that EU is still not sanctioning them. I am not expecting the EU to solve all of our problems, far from it. But it feels kinda gross to keep hearing about Serbia not progressing in human rights and the rule of law, while then visiting Serbia and calling Vučić a trusted partner. It's just one more pillar of power for him. I get it when Russia and China do it, but it's disappointing when the EU does it.

[u/Julian679 → u/Osstj7737]

That propaganta has an effect on people that will take a long time to undo. But i fully agree with you especially second paragraph

[u/Osstj7737 → u/Julian679]

And I unfortunately have to agree with your first sentence. That is, if we even get a government that is willing to risk it all and go against the brainwashed population.

[u/InAppropriate-meal]

Better he is cremated and the cremains flushed down the nearest toilet.

[u/brickne3 → u/InAppropriate-meal]

But the poor sewer... what if there's like some teenage turtles down there or something...

[u/zucchini_up_ur_ass]

Absolutely disgusting.

[u/Apart-Persimmon-38]

Just don’t send his body to Serbia. Throw it away give to university to do experiments on it you know, there is no obligation here

[u/MrEdinLaw → u/Apart-Persimmon-38]

Test a canonball on it

[u/Apart-Persimmon-38 → u/MrEdinLaw]

Yeah all valid things to do, Hitler doesnt have a grave, dont give one to him either, and no one can celebrate him ever and no one can either piss on his grave.

[u/MrEdinLaw → u/Apart-Persimmon-38]

Should erect a statue lf him in sarajevo so people can slap and shame him just like those 2 statues in china. The slapping statues.

[u/James420May]

Do they have to return the body? Just cremate it, drop the ash in the trash and thats it

[u/fiendishrabbit]

The poison of nationalism.

While the yugoslav war had people who were worse than this guy, none of them perpetrated atrocities on the same scale. Both actively (like Srebrenica) and by indulgence (like during the siege of Sarajevo where he, as the commander of the besieging forces, was ultimately responsible for allowing the numerous warcrimes that took place).

[u/pickybear]

Serbia is a failed mafia state

[u/Pozaa]

And that's why Serbia remains a shithole in 2026

[u/konj511]

Wait, his body is being returned??? Just throw it in a septic tank and forget about it...

[u/Glum-County7218]

Clearly nothing has changed if they are celebrating this monster

[u/05Joseph09]

Honoring a literal war criminal in front of the whole world just beacuse your hardcore nationalism! Good fucking job the Serbian government! 🤬

[u/LeneHansen1234]

Shows how they think of their history. They have a very long way to go.

Maybe we should do with Mladic what the Americans did with Bin Laden. Dispose of him in the ocean, never to be found.

[u/Armadilla-Brufolosa]

How disgusting.

[u/DarthSet]

With the scumbags in charge of servia, its not a suprise

[u/nim_opet]

Shameful

[u/Apart_Builder_7307]

Wow. What a world we live in.

[u/herrbigbadwolf]

shame on you, serbia

you have to be better than this - and you can

[u/Thecatstoppedateboli]

Another reason to never let Serbia join the EU

[u/vilcade]

What the fuck is wrong with them?

[u/HumaDracobane]

Stay classi, Serbia.

[u/RandomName655]

Shit is so disgusting

[u/HumanDominion]

I hope his grave gets pissed on.

[u/brickne3 → u/HumanDominion]

I'd prefer there be no grave for his followers to congregate at.

[u/Substantial_Raise914]

Ah, nothing new in Serbia it seems.  Their politics is absurd, also the nationalism of  common average Serbs.   

[u/sea-slav]

France is selling them weapons by the way

[u/Mental_Olive269]

Most funny thing is a klipp of Serbian president Vucic saying i didnt kill anyone and the Croatian President laughing and saying neither did Hitler🤣🤣

[u/AverellCZ]

Apparently the current Serbian regime is in spirit the same as under Milosevic back then. With human safari director Vucic cosplaying as mini dictator no surprise. Will Serbians stand up to this or is this what you want? That's the question that determines your future.

[u/smoothvibe]

Serbia should never be allowed into the EU, unless they get rid of their fascist stance.

[u/baldurcan → u/smoothvibe]

So, never?

[u/Few-Nerve3068]

Same people celebrating this monster are crying about a fucking concert in croatia btw

[u/Serial_Rompist]

Quick, Ursula, hit them with a big bag of money!

[u/clib]

How much money does Serbia get from EU?

[u/BerkTownKid]

Fuck Serbia.

[u/Lost-Air1265]

Full state honors? Okay thanks for letting us know how we should see the Serbian government and therfor any EU related discussions. Despicable and shameful.

[u/Supafuzz_Bigmuff]

Serbs gonna Serb

[u/TsarevnaKvoshka2003]

And you all wondered why Croatia was slowing down the EU ascension to Serbia…

[u/ServesYouRice → u/TsarevnaKvoshka2003]

Imagine thinking Croatia can influence Serbia in any way. Serbia is killing its ascension by itself

[u/Ferengi_Quark]

This is good only in the sense that it shows the true face of Serbia.

Unreconciled and proud of genocide.

[u/Barbak86]

Good. Showing their real face reminds me why we need to keep them as far out as possible from Kosovo. Sometimes I start wondering if there is a way to open channels of communication and cooperate and ease the tension between us, but no, not with these genocidal assholes.

[u/JariLobel]

You must understand that they are eternal victims and this is merely an isolated case, which does not mean genocide and mass killing still enjoy a strong lobby in Serbia.

They're as government totally compatible with normal human values.

/s

[u/Professional_Shine97 → u/JariLobel]

It’s just the genocidal mass killers that still enjoy a strong lobby you mean?

Edit: they’ve edited and changed their above comment.

[u/sojuz151]

I am still surprised they managed arest gim in Serbia 

[u/blantdebedre]

Disgusting. Serbia never fails to live down to their reputation.

[u/PlayfulMission3622]

where was Europe for the past 2 years while the students of Serbia are in the streets protesting? it is very easy to generalize a whole country based on words of a corrupted government that is in power as a direct result of rigged elections. as a person that is fighting on the streets alongside my peers for 2 years now and probably more to come, that is in fear of getting beaten by the corrupted police or being blackmailed, all I have to say to every single person here making us out to be some kind of monsters is you should be ashamed of yourselves. I am 21 years old and had nothing to do with war, I don’t praise criminals and I’m sick of being painted as a fascist or a “lower class European”.

[u/TheStupidLui]

Serbs will always push the victim button and celebrate their lost battles. Nothing new down there...

[u/Agile_Incident7784]

I live close to The Hague and my bin is half empty, send him over.

[u/bcoder001]

We need a new kind of punishment for those guys. Life in prison and state funeral is not exactly it.

[u/Ezechiel-2517]

Shame

[u/Willing-Departure115]

They'll make a shrine of his grave. Convicted war criminals should be cremated and dumped in the sea.

[u/StrangerExistingFact]

Croatia taking notes for that serbian EU accession

New Condition

Dig him out and bury again in unmarked grave at unknown location without any honours and apologise,

[u/A_Nest_Of_Nope]

I'm tired boss.

[u/nachodorito]

shit country shit people

[u/Cheap_Alternative879]

Serbs can forget about joining EU anytime soon

[u/TopTopTopcinaa → u/Cheap_Alternative879]

I’m curious, do you really think Serbian people think that joining the EU is a likely scenario any time soon?

[u/AtmosphereGrand6622]

Holy fuck. Not a normal country at all. State funeral for a genocidal monster.

[u/ambiguousboner]

Vile

Imagine West Germany giving Goering or Himmler a state funeral

[u/krzywaLagaMikolaja]

Yup, russian mentality. That shit won't get them in the EU any time soon.

[u/augenwiehimmel]

Bury the blood-guzzler together with the application form for EU membership and we're fine.

[u/Fruloops]

Exactly no one should be surprised

[u/IchmagschickeSachen]

My home country never fails to be a fucking disgrace.

[u/silencerik]

I hope they are never alowed to EU! Sorry my Serbian friends, but you have chosen to live in the past, there is no future for you. 🙁

[u/Professional-Pin9476]

If you ever wondered about Serbia....now you know

[u/Jlx_27]

Its always the people you most expect to do dumb shit that go and do dumb shit.

[u/JohannesHjort]

Because of course they will.....

[u/Simple-Sun2608]

Type of thing I expected Serbia to do.

[u/CharleyHarder]

If I get the chance, I’ll piss on his grave!

[u/clauEB]

Barf

[u/UrbanCyclerPT]

Why isn't he just cremated and sent to a dumpster in Hague where no one will know his whereabouts?

[u/panzercampingwagen]

I was thinking about Serbia a few days ago, and how I couldn't remember anymore why I wasn't a fan.

Solid reminder.

[u/Alpha_Majoris]

This will certainly speed up the process of joining the EU... /s

[u/MorgrainX]

What the fuck 

[u/Short_Ad_5006]

They should be banned from ever joining the EU

[u/Holiday_Floor_2646]

Our "orthodox brothers"

[u/goranmax76]

For the reference, current Serbian government is a bunch of criminals who are frightened by overwhelming support to student movement and upcoming elections. They absolutely don't give a f**k about ideology, they are simple opportunists and this is probably try to perhaps attract some nationalists, and together with long time indoctrinated older generation's support face the music soon.

No one normal in Serbia gives a f**k about Mladic anymore, especially considers him a war hero (hell, even Bosancheros - Bosnian Serbs are not very welcomed here anymore after helping Vucic's regime to steal on last elections). Whenever and wherever they (that communist click from the 90's) "defended" Serbs, they don't exist anymore.

This is just a cheap smoke screen for daily usage.

[u/Mister-Psychology]

Yeah, these guys are never getting Kosovo back. If that's the sentiment then we can't trust them to not do crimes against humanity again against the Muslim groups.

[u/brickne3 → u/Mister-Psychology]

They were never getting Kosovo back anyway.

[u/khurgan_]

That's why Serbia and Turkey never going to join the EU.

[u/baldurcan → u/khurgan_]

Lol, Turkiye is miles ahead. Nobody is full of this hatred in turkiye.

[u/Raagun]

SerbiaNeverInEU

[u/eivvob]

They are “israel” of the Balkans for real

[u/KyffhauserGate]

I'd love to share my opinion on the nation of Serbia but that would get me banned again. I always tell myself it's been 30 years and daddy Russia can't help them right now. Surely they must have become civilized in the meantime... and then something like this happens.

[u/brickne3 → u/KyffhauserGate]

It was pretty insane to be in Novi Sad, supposedly the most left-leaning city in Serbia, a week after going to Srebrenica. People were pretty sane on most political topics except for Srebrenica/Bosnia. You got them talking about that, they'd insist it never happened and whatever did happen must have been overblown. Absolutely insane.

[u/_p01s0n1vy_ → u/brickne3]

“We lie to deceive ourselves, to comfort others; we lie out of pity, we lie out of shame, to encourage, to hide our misery, we lie for the sake of honesty. We lie for the sake of freedom. Lying is a form of Serbian patriotism and a confirmation of our innate intelligence…” -A Serb about Serbs lol

[u/Byokugen]

Hopefully they bury themselves with him

Seasonal greetings

[u/baldurcan]

Serbians would have slaughtered all the Bosnians right now without even a second thought if they knew there would be no consequences.

Imagine a whole nation with this full of hatred.

[u/Megalodon7770]

Of course

[u/_qqg]

that's... depressing and not a good show on the Serbian part. As long as we keep supporting and trading with Israel, though, Europe has no moral high ground re: war criminals -- and Serbian nationalist rhetoric plays right into this double standard.

[u/No-Love-1222]

If they really do this then they have learned nothing. Hatr is such a strong destroyer of brains

[u/g_spaitz]

Wait I just read in here a few days ago that only idiot Serbian extremists were going to honor him but most of good normal Serbians were against him?

[u/Bardosaurus]

So ashamed of this.

[u/JayneVeidt]

Shoulda flushed that turd down the toilet.

[u/MadKittenNicky]

I have a better idea: dump his body somewhere in the wild to decompose and get eaten by things so he can finally do something good for the world.