On 27 August, Red Star Belgrade supporters travelled to the Czech Republic to watch their club try to protect a 3-0 first-leg lead against Viktoria Plzeň in the Europa League playoffs. During the match, a banner appeared in the away end.
“Generale, večna slava i hvala.” “General, eternal glory and thanks.”
Supporters repeatedly chanted the name of Ratko Mladić.
Earlier that day, Mladić had died in UN custody in The Hague. The former commander of the Bosnian Serb army was serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
His forces conducted the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo, during which thousands of civilians were killed, and in July 1995 overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica. More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were subsequently murdered. International courts ruled the massacre was genocide.
Mladić was also convicted over the persecution, murder and forcible removal of civilians across Bosnia, as well as…
