British-American journalist and longtime CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour expressed disappointment over the fact that war criminal Ratko Mladić is still being shown respect in Serbia.
Amanpour, who reported from the field during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was among the first to warn the international public about the scale of the crimes, stated that, after everything she witnessed, she hoped that Serbia would not go down the path of glorifying war criminals.
"Having covered Mladic's monstrous crimes in real time, I dared to hope that Serbia would not do this. I hoped that the dreams of today's young Serbs of joining Europe, of membership in the club of democracy and human rights, might add an element of common sense, morality, and restraint," Amanpour wrote on the X network.
She wondered whether it must now be concluded that this is what Serbia wants to be - a nation that is "in agreement with and that pays homage to a convicted war criminal, a mass murderer, guilty of the most heinous crime under heaven - genocide."
"How did the system, including the church, allow this?" Amanpour wondered.
Former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) Ratko Mladić, who died in The Hague where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and other war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was buried with state and military honors at the Topčider Cemetery in Belgrade.
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