[CTRL] Arkan Funeral 'Biggest Since Tito's'

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From: stephanie niketic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kosovo Daily News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:44 PM
Subject: [sn-vesti 420] TimLon: Arkan Funeral 'Biggest Since Tito's'


>THE TIMES (London)
>January 21 2000
>
>Arkan funeral in Belgrade 'the biggest since
>Tito's'
>
>BY EVE-ANN PRENTICE
>
>ONLY the sound of pigeons and a three-volley rifle salute broke
>the silence yesterday, as thousands of people braved sub-zero
>temperatures to watch the assassinated Serbian warlord, Arkan,
>lowered into his grave.
>
>An air of genuine sadness permeated the freezing air at the
>funeral in central Belgrade, in stark contrast to a commemoration
>service on Wednesday that was dominated by large crop-haired
>men and glamorous, heavily made-up young women. The majority
>of those who gathered for yesterday's burial at the new cemetery
>were ordinary Serbs, many carrying modest bunches of flowers to
>lay at the grave.
>
>Many had travelled from the Bosnian Serb republic, where
>Arkan's Tiger militia were accused of massacres, and
>Montenegro, his family's native republic. "It was probably the
>biggest funeral in Belgrade since Tito's in 1980," one mourner
>said. "People were so quiet you could hear the pigeons cooing."
>There was no sign of the police or any members of the Yugoslav
>regime, which some Serbs suspect of having ordered the killing of
>Arkan - real name Zeljko Raznatovic - at the Intercontinental
>Hotel in Belgrade last weekend.
>
>Before the burial in the family plot, dominated by a gold cross on
>black marble, relations and friends attended a Serbian Orthodox
>funeral at the cemetery chapel. Weeping could be heard from
>within by the crowds outside as hymns were sung by a choir.
>
>After the service, which lasted nearly two hours, Arkan's eldest
>son, Mihajlo, 21, emerged behind the black coffin carrying a
>cross. Arkan had nine children by three wives and the last, the
>folk-rock singer, Ceca, looked pale and drawn. Hundreds of
>supporters of Arkan's Obilic football team also joined the
>mourners, dressed in winter football kits. A huge floral tribute in
>blue - the team's colour - was laid at the grave by club members.
>Representatives of the murdered man's Serb Volunteer Guard
>carried the coffin to the grave.
>
>

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