Serbian war criminal Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'

Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died at eighty-four in a UN prison in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence, France 24 reports. He was also found guilty of leading the siege of Sarajevo, and the outlet notes his planned burial with state honours has sparked sharp divisions in Serbia.

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