The funeral of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and war crimes by a United Nations tribunal, has been held in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, with state honours, according to Al Jazeera. Mladic was convicted over atrocities committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica massacre. The decision to grant state honours to a convicted war criminal is likely to draw international criticism and renewed scrutiny of Serbia's approach to its wartime past.
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