{"id":762984,"date":"2026-09-07T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:18:16","slug":"ratko-mladic-red-star-fans-display-tifo-of-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762984\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratko Mladic: Red Star fans display tifo of war criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Star Belgrade fans unveiled a tifo of war criminal Ratko Mladic before their derby win over Partizan Belgrade on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Mladic, who died in a United Nations prison in August,<\/a> was given a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2017.<\/p>\n

He and his troops were responsible for the systematic killing of the non-Serb population of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the wars in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1995.<\/p>\n

He oversaw the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica and a siege of the capital Sarajevo in which more than 10,000 people died.<\/p>\n

Red Star have already been fined 90,000 euros (\u00a377,000) this season by Uefa, external<\/a> after their fans unveiled a banner commemorating Mladic in a Europa League play-off against Czech side FC Viktoria Plzen last month.<\/p>\n

Red Star’s social media accounts published a video of the tifo and the two teams observing a minute’s silence for Mladic, alongside a saluting emoji.<\/p>\n

The official X account of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s national team replied with an obscenity.<\/p>\n

After initially enjoying the protection of Serb president Slobodan Milosevic, who would later die while on trial for genocide himself, Mladic spent more than a decade on the run, eventually being found hiding out in a remote farmhouse.<\/p>\n

However, he remains a celebrated figure for some in Serbia with thousands gathering at a church in Belgrade for his funeral on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Star Belgrade fans unveiled a tifo of war criminal Ratko Mladic before their derby win over Partizan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}