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The death of Ratko Mladic does not close the chapter on the conflicts of the 1990s, as his trial leaves behind thousands of adjudicated facts and tens of thousands of evidence items that future generations will study, according to Natasa Kandic, founder of the Humanitarian Law Center and a longtime human rights activist. Speaking to N1, Kandic emphasized the enduring weight of the legal record while warning of how Serbian media and political propaganda have distorted public perception among younger populations.<\/p>\n

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\nReflecting on the extensive judicial proceedings spanning 530 days, Kandic stated, \u201cIt seems to me that we will never close the chapter relating to the period from the nineties.\u201d She added, \u201cWe need to read all that, what happened and what stands in 2.000 adjudicated facts, in tens of thousands of evidence items reviewed during the trial of Ratko Mladic. That is something that generations will read, study, and interpret.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kandic also defended the Residual Mechanism\u2019s decision to reject requests for Mladic to spend his final months receiving medical treatment in Serbia, noting that he spent years evading justice before being provided with proper medical care in detention. \u201cHe hid, he ran away from justice,\u201d she said, stressing the importance of fulfilling the court-mandated sentence.<\/p>\n

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Kandic sharply criticized media reporting in Serbia following Mladic\u2019s passing. \u201cMost media address him as a general, \u2018the general has passed away,\u2019 and then begin with information about his biography which, as presented, acts like the biography of a famous military commander,\u201d she noted. She warned that state-controlled programming would likely promote narratives depicting Mladic as a savior rather than addressing his war crimes, such as the sniper and artillery terror directed against civilians in Sarajevo. \u201cThat was sniper terror over civilians in Sarajevo and those are things that cannot be covered up, everything cannot be put aside now with his death,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n

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Addressing the broader societal impact, Kandic argued that long-term political messaging has severely hindered facing the past. \u201cWe are currently witnesses that propaganda over the past 13-14 years has acted terribly on young generations, that it is instilled in their minds, and that the propaganda has succeeded, so that they now think that Ratko Mladic is truly a fighter, that he is a hero who managed to stop some genocide against the Serbian people,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

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She noted that overcoming this ideological shift requires a fundamental change in political leadership and educational institutions. \u201cInstitutions have completely failed,\u201d Kandic concluded, warning that political elites continue to exploit nationalism to maintain power, leaving society at risk of distancing itself even further from historical truth.<\/p>\n

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