The authorities of Bosnia-Herzegovina today dismissed two military personnel for glorifying the late war criminal Ratko Mladić and sent the cases of 35 other military personnel to the prosecutor for disciplinary action.
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24/09/2026
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Lusa
O bosnia-Herzegovina Defense Minister Zukan Helix warned that he will not tolerate the glorification of those convicted of war crimes and genocide, according to the Bosnian portal ‘Politicki’.
The two fired soldiers had just joined the Army, while the other reported cases were referred to the Bosnian Public Prosecutor's Office, Helez explained.
In Bosnia, glorifying war criminals and convicted acts like war crimes is a crime.
Savo Minic, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, of a Serbian-Bosnia majority and one of the two entities which, together with the Croatian and Muslim Federation, constitute Bosnia-Herzegovina, denounced that the measure represents a “persecution to the Serbs” in the country’s Armed Forces.
Minic, who is the candidate for the SNSD formation of the secessionist Milorad Dodik to the presidency of the Republic Srpska in the forthcoming Bosnian elections on October 4, accused on social network X Minister Helez of having as “principal concern to sow hatred against the Serbian people”.
Mladic died in August in The Hague prison, sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide in Srebrenica, persecutions, murders, deportations and other crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.
In early September he was buried in Belgrade with military honors and exalted as a hero in the presence of Serbian ministers and the political summit of the Srpska Republic.