Analysis: The Enduring Influence of Ratko Mladić’s Ideology in the Balkans

Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, could not escape death. But his fascist ideas and ideology live on | Ed Vulliamy

When I testified against Mladić at his trial in The Hague, I saw the unrepentant face of a mass murderer. That face and his legacy still haunt Serbia today Men age and die, but in the Balkans, time stands still and is stuck. General RatkoMladić, who died in prison in The Hague on Thursday aged 84, remains a hero in the Republika Srpska statelet – the Serbian half of dismembered Bosnia that he carved out with a hurricane of violence between 1992 and 1995 – and in Serbia itself. Too many Serbs ...

By Ed Vulliamy