# Mladic’s death, Bosnia and Serbia’s unfinished reckoning

https://mins.news/en/item/40332

- DW, 2026-09-01 13:09 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/mladic-s-death-bosnia-and-serbia-s-unfinished-reckoning/a-78602733?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> Ratko Mladic’s death has reopened rather than closed old wounds from Europe’s recent history. In Serbia and Republika Srpska, some mourned the former Bosnian Serb army commander convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as a national hero, while victims and officials in Bosnia’s Federation condemned the glorification. The article argues that the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the war but not the divisions and ideology behind it.

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