Yugoslav population celebrates after Milosevic's arrest
People who suffered under Slobodan Milosevic's regime across the former Yugoslavia have greeted his arrest with rejoicing.
Many Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians say they feel united by a common loathing for the former president.
The war in Kosovo was triggered after Milosevic launched a harsh crackdown on ethnic Albanians separatists that ended in 1999 only after a NATO air campaign.
Kosovo is now run by international administrators, attached only in name to what remains of Yugoslavia - the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
In Bosnia, Milosevic is widely blamed escalating the 1992 war that kept the capital of Sarajevo besieged for three years in Europe's bloodiest violence since the Second World War. Up to 200,000 people are believed killed or remain missing in the conflict.
Earlier, Slovenia and Croatia broke away - the former after a brief conflict, the latter after a six-month war that left 10,000 dead.
At home, those wars were popular - until Serbs and Montenegrins began to suffer. International isolation came first, then poverty as world sanctions and the cost of the wars began to bite.
"We were waiting eagerly for this to happen," Zorica Vitic, a 34-year-old university lecturer of medieval history, said in Belgrade. "Milosevic should now stay behind bars for as long as possible."
Parking lot attendant Dejan Dimic said the arrest should have happened earlier. "I had friends who died on front lines where he sent them to fight," said Mr Dimic, aged 32.
"He should be lynched," said Hajrullah Dalipi, an ethnic Albanian in the province of Kosovo. "He was and is the personification of the devil, and as such, he should burn in hell and not stay in prison."
Still, most Serbs are reluctant to have Milosevic extradited for trial to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, because the court is perceived as anti-Serb and politically biased.
They would prefer to see him tried in Yugoslavia.
