Milosevic flown home for burial

The body of Slobodan Milosevic has been flown home to Serbia for burial, met on the tarmac by only a handful of party loyalists. The low-key arrival, after days of wrangling over his final resting place, was an unceremonious homecoming for a man once feared – and respected – by millions.

Milosevic, who 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, will be buried on Saturday in the grounds of the family estate in the industrial town of Pozarevac, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) southeast of Belgrade, an official of Milosevic’s Socialist Party said.