In Serbia, Few Frankly Reckon With Ratko Mladić’s Crimes

When residents of a block in Belgrade’s city center woke up to the news last week, they were confronted with a mural celebrating a war criminal, painted overnight. Furious, they plotted a “night action” to destroy this latest tribute to Ratko Mladić with improvised defacement tactics. While the war criminal’s face is ever present across the Serbian capital, this was the first time a mural several meters long and about one meter high had appeared on the building surrounding their park. The news…