因战争罪被判终身监禁的波斯尼亚塞族指挥官拉特科·姆拉迪奇于8月27日在荷兰海牙联合国监狱服刑期间去世，享年84岁13。塞尔维亚政府随后在首都贝尔格莱德为其举办了军礼葬礼，吸引数千人参加12，尽管此举遭到欧盟的强烈警告1。
姆拉迪奇因在1995年斯雷布雷尼察大屠杀中策划杀害8000余名波什尼亚克穆斯林男性和男孩而被定罪123。除此之外，他还因长期围困萨拉热窝、建立集中营等战争罪行于2017年被判终身监禁13。塞尔维亚正教会族长波菲里耶主持了葬礼1，并表示姆拉迪奇的名字将"深深刻在我们大多数塞尔维亚东正教人民的记忆和祈祷中"3。塞尔维亚国防部长和司法部长等政府官员参加了这一活动3。
葬礼招致广泛谴责。欧盟扩大事务专员玛尔塔·科斯因此取消了对塞尔维亚的访问计划12，并表示"对其死亡的美化与欧盟价值观不相容"2。欧盟声明指出，"任何对战争罪犯的美化、种族灭绝否认和历史修正主义违反基本欧洲价值观"3。波斯尼亚穆斯林母亲组织则称这是"过去70年欧洲最大的法西斯集会"1。
对此，塞尔维亚总统武契奇为葬礼进行了辩护，称其是"情感释放"，与政府是否赞成无关，并声称塞尔维亚遭受了30至40年的"迫害"1。武契奇本人在2011年下令逮捕了作为逃亡者长达16年的姆拉迪奇2。目前塞尔维亚正与欧盟谈判入盟事宜，这一进程近年已出现停滞2。
Ratko Mladić, a Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of war crimes, died on August 27 at age 84 while serving a life sentence in a United Nations prison in The Hague 123. On Monday, thousands gathered in Belgrade for his funeral, which Serbian authorities conducted with military honors despite international condemnation 123.
Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after being convicted of genocide for his role in planning the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which approximately 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed 123. His convictions also included responsibility for the 1,460-day siege of Sarajevo, which claimed over 10,000 civilian lives, and for establishing concentration camps 12. The Serbian government formally stopped short of declaring the funeral an official state funeral, though it employed state funeral protocols 2.
The funeral sparked strong international backlash. The European Union's enlargement commissioner, Margarita Szőcs, cancelled her planned visit to Serbia, stating that "glorification of its death is incompatible with EU values" 2. The EU declared that "any glorification of war criminals, genocide denial, and historical revisionism violates fundamental European values" 3. Bosnia's Association of Mothers of Srebrenica Enclave called the event "Europe's largest fascist gathering in 70 years" 1.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić characterized the funeral as an "emotional release" independent of government endorsement and claimed Serbia had endured "persecution" for 30 to 40 years 1. The Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije presided over the ceremony 1, with the patriarch stating that Mladić's name would be "deeply inscribed in the memory and prayers of most of our Serbian Orthodox people" 3. Serbian defense and justice ministers attended 3. Vučić had ordered Mladić's arrest in 2011 after the fugitive had evaded capture for 16 years 2.
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