Ratko Mladic is gone. The racial ideology that produced him is not

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Despite the death of one of its most zealous proponents, the toxic worldview that underpinned the Bosnian genocide retains its global reach Many of us will have the fortune of being warmly remembered after death. Others will have the misfortune of being completely forgotten. And then there are those who will be recalled alongside some of humanity’s darkest crimes. Remembered at his death as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, Ratko Mladic belongs to the last category. He will forever be remembered as the S