Milosevic's body arrives in Belgrade

Slobodan Milosevic’s body returned to his homeland today, flown to Belgrade from the Netherlands where he died last weekend at a UN detention centre near the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

A commercial JAT Airways plane carrying the coffin landed at Belgrade’s airport, where a dark blue minivan belonging to a private funeral parlour was parked on the tarmac, waiting to take the body to a morgue in the Serbian capital. A public viweing of the body is arranged for Thursday and Friday before the burial on Saturday in Milosevic’s hometown of Pozarevac.