Milosevic's body to be displayed in former Tito museum
The coffin holding Slobodan Milosevic’s body will be displayed today at a museum that used to exhibit gifts received by the late Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito – yet another unusual twist in the tumultuous aftermath of his death.
Milosevic’s body returned to a low-key welcome in Belgrade yesterday, with baggage handlers unceremoniously removing the former president’s casket from a jet’s cargo hold after a number of suitcases.
But some die-hards who stood in the cold and snow flurries greeted his coffin with tears, kisses and wailing, reflecting the divisive emotions that Milosevic can still muster, even in death.
Milosevic died last weekend at a UN detention centre in the Netherlands near the war crimes tribunal that was trying him on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. He will be buried on Saturday in the grounds of the family estate in the industrial town of Pozarevac.
After they were refused to display Milosevic’s body at several other more prominent locations, including the federal parliament building, Milosevic’s Socialists opted for the Museum of Revolution, a decaying building in Belgrade’s plush Dedinje district.
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