The truth that, 31 years on, some people still refuse to accept. At Mladic’s funeral, he is remembered as a ‘hero’, but the history of the war in the Balkans and of Srebrenica tells a very different story 

The former general had been definitively convicted of extremely serious war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Bosnia, and of the Srebrenica genocide. He died aged 84 in a detention centre in The Hague