Why do serbians support mladic

At an appearance in a suburb of Novi Sad, he asked why detractors had organized their planned makeover of the mural for an internationally recognized day against fascism. He also noted that it had since been damaged with the white paint and rejected suggestions that Serbian state officials were protecting it, saying that "if police had been protecting the mural, no one would have destroyed the mural" on November Can I go draw whatever I want?

One woman said there's so much graffiti in the city that "one more or one less won't make any difference. He was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other war crimes by the ICTY in and sentenced to life in prison for his leading role in the 1,day siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica genocide. One of the two activists detained for throwing eggs at the mural on November 9, Aida Corovic, said it was a "symbolic act" to protest the Mladic depiction.

Dozens of protesters converged on the scene well into the evening to express support for Corovic and the other activist. Both were released after a few hours.

Andy Heil is a Prague-based senior correspondent covering the Balkans, the Transcaucasus, and science and the environment. Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan. Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia. Belarus Ukraine. The Serbian opposition has frequently criticised Vucic, a former nationalist who later adopted pro-European policies, as well as his allies, of autocracy, stifling media freedoms, attacks on opposition, corruption and ties with organised crime. Vucic and his allies have denied that.

In a statement, Serbia's Interior Ministry said the police were enforcing public order and an earlier ban on all public gatherings related to the wall painting of Mladic.

Ratko Mladic is being made," it said. Some argue that the same political dynamic is at work in the United States.

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