EU politicians urge Serbian president not to glorify war criminals

A police officer walks by a mural of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic in Belgrade, Serbia (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

A group of European parliamentarians urged the Serbian president and other government officials to stop glorifying convicted war criminals and denying genocide committed in Bosnia in the 1990s.

Their statement came two days after Serbia’s police prevented rights activists from painting over a large mural in Belgrade of convicted Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic.