Overview
- Long queues formed at St. Luke's Church as crowds filed past Mladić's casket, many kissing it while Orthodox priests led prayers.
- Mladić died on 27 August in a hospital in The Hague where he was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- His name is closely linked to the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which about 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by forces under his command.
- Serbian authorities have announced a burial with state and military honors and senior politicians already attended a generals-organized memorial, and the prime minister said tens of thousands are expected though he will not attend.
- EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos canceled a planned visit in protest of the public glorification, a move that highlights regional tensions and could complicate Serbia's relations with the European Union while deepening domestic divisions over wartime memory.