Thousands gathered in Belgrade for the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. [1] Reuters filed the crowd. [1] Politico filed Ursula von der Leyen's objection. [2] A funeral is not a rewritten ICTY verdict. Print the burial. Do not print a rehabilitation.

Leave Tuesday's two diplomat expulsions to Tuesday. Military honors are not a state rewrite of Srebrenica. Print the funeral. Print Brussels objects.

Print the burial. Monday is not a rewritten verdict. Thousands in Belgrade are still not a rehabilitation. Print the funeral as Monday's named hold. Von der Leyen's objection is still not a rewritten ICTY file. Print the burial as still Monday's named Belgrade. Print Brussels objects as still not a rewritten verdict. Print thousands as still not a rehabilitation.

Srebrenica's shadow falls across every Mladić ceremony; 1995 attends all funerals. Thousands mourning don't rehabilitate. Brussels objects because the verdict must outlive the man.

Verdicts outlive men; ceremonies don't. Monday buries the man. The verdict keeps.

Kept verdicts keep; Monday keeps one. Keeping is the update. Ceremonies end.

1995 attends all funerals. Monday buries the man, not the Hague file. Mourning is not rehabilitation.

Belgrade buried Ratko Mladić under a crowd Politico set against Ursula von der Leyen's objection. Military honors do not reopen the ICTY judgment on Srebrenica. Two diplomat expulsions belong to Tuesday's paper. Mourning in the capital is not a Hague reversal.
Two diplomat expulsions belong to Tuesday's paper. Politico set the crowd against von der Leyen's objection. Monday prints a burial, not a Hague reversal.

Two diplomat expulsions belong to Tuesday's paper. Monday prints a burial, not Tuesday's expulsions. Monday's Belgrade file is a burial, not a Hague reversal.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Berlin