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Thousands turned out in Serbia for the funeral of Ratko Mladić, the 'Butcher of Bosnia' convicted of genocide for atrocities committed during the 1990s Bosnian war, prompting the EU to warn Serbia against glorifying a convicted war criminal amid the large public turnout. The funeral has reignited scrutiny of Serbia's reckoning with its wartime past. The European Union has since explicitly condemned Serbian government ministers who attended the funeral, saying their presence represented a failure to confront the country's history of war crimes. The condemnation adds diplomatic pressure on Belgrade as it seeks closer ties with the EU while domestic nationalist sentiment around Mladić's legacy persists.