Ratko Mladić, a former Serbian military commander convicted of genocide and other war crimes, died at the age of 84 in a United Nations detention facility in The Hague, where he had been serving a life sentence. He was found guilty of directing the siege of Sarajevo and orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed. The proposal to grant him a state‑level burial has ignited a vigorous national debate within Serbia, dividing public opinion and political leaders alike.
