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Serbia: How the funeral of Ratko Mladic is dividing a nation

The body of Ratko Mladic, who was convicted of genocide and other war crimes, was returned to Serbia and received with military honors, drawing condemnation over the glorification of a convicted war criminal and warnings connected to EU accession standards. The event also raised a legal question in Serbia about whether Mladic's military rank could be honored given his criminal sentence, and it was accompanied by a range of reactions from ordinary people, from indifference to reverence to acceptance of the genocide verdict.

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Mladic’s body arrives to full military honours in Serbia

Al Jazeera English frames the story around Serbia's official 'military honours' welcome for a convicted war criminal, emphasizing the tribunal's condemnation of glorification, the EU's warning over Serbia's accession bid, and background on the scale of atrocities (Srebrenica genocide, Siege of Sarajevo, 100,000+ deaths), presenting the reception as a defiant, internationally controversial act by the Serbian state rather than primarily a domestic identity debate.

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Serbia: How the funeral of Ratko Mladic is dividing a nation

Deutsche Welle frames the story primarily around domestic Serbian division and controversy, foregrounding a human rights advocate's critique of decades-long glorification of Mladic, the legal question of whether he can be honored with military rank given his conviction, and a range of ordinary Serbian voices from apathy to reverence to acceptance of the genocide verdict, presenting the funeral as a politically fraught test for Vucic.

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