Milosevic’s body begins final journey to Belgrade

A HEARSE took the body of Slobodan Milosevic to Amsterdam airport last night as Serbia cleared the way for the former Yugoslav president’s widow to return for a funeral in Belgrade.

Milosevic’s body begins final journey to Belgrade

Mr Milosevic, who died of a heart attack in jail on Saturday, just months before a verdict in his war crimes trial, ruled for a decade as Yugoslavia imploded in conflict during the 1990s. Belgrade authorities have ruled out a state funeral.

A Serbian court said Mr Milosevic’s widow, Mira Markovic, who fled to Moscow in 2003 to avoid charges of abuse of power, would not be arrested if she returned home. But she will face a court hearing and her passport will be confiscated, the court said.

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