← Back to feed Culture & Ideas

The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ is dead – but divisions live on in the Balkans

Monocle / 30 August 2026 / 9h ago

Culture Index

Score Breakdown

Relevance

3/25

Freshness

25/25

Authority

18/20

Brand Signal

6/15

Depth

6/15

5-Axis Cultural Radar

Serbia’s former president Boris Tadić got it right. Ratko Mladić was a “stain” – and his death in custody in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, will not cleanse Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia of his toxic legacy. The former Bosnian-Serb general isn’t the only murderous […] The post The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ is dead – but divisions live on in t

Read Full Article → Monocle ↗

The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ is dead – but divisions live on in the Balkans

More in Culture & Ideas

Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ of 15 false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran; AI overviews did it 60%+ of the time (Huo Jingnan/NPR)

Glassdoor analysis finds 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their companies' AI use, compared with 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z workers (Taylor Nicole Rogers/Bloomberg)

Caá Porá Arquitectura creates teaching pavilion in the Amazon rainforest