Controversy over Milosevic's burial site continues

Slobodan Milosevic’s Socialist party threatened to topple Serbia’s minority government if the former Yugoslav president was not buried with state honors in Belgrade and if his widow was not allowed to attend the funeral.

Serbia’s pro-Western President Boris Tadic rejected the Socialists’ proposal, however, saying it was “absolutely inappropriate ... as Serbia said all it had to say about Milosevic” in October 2000, when its people toppled the former autocrat in massive street protests.