http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/14/news/milosevic.php
International Herald Tribune
March 14, 2006
Milosevic's son says his father was murdered
Reuters, The Associated Press
-"It's a great regret that they did not heed our
numerous appeals for an examination," said Leo
Bokeria, head of the Bakulev Clinic in Moscow,
claiming Milosevic's life could have been saved with
proper treatment.
AMSTERDAM - Slobodan Milosevic's son said Tuesday
that the former Yugoslav president had been murdered
at the detention center of the UN war crimes tribunal
in The Hague.
"He got killed, he didn't die. He got killed. There is
a murder," the son, Marko Milosevic, said after
arriving in Amsterdam on a flight from Moscow.
He was scheduled to continue to The Hague later
Tuesday to claim his father's body.
In Belgrade, an official with Milosevic's party said
that an arrest warrant for Milosevic's wife, Mirjana
Markovic, had been suspended, raising the possibility
of a Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav
president. A Belgrade court confirmed the suspension.
The ranking official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to
the media, said that the court acted on a proposal by
the state prosecutor when it suspended the warrant for
Markovic.
A team of Russian forensic experts was also heading to
The Hague on Tuesday to inspect the results of an
autopsy on the former president, whose body is being
held at the Dutch National Forensic Institute.
The Russian government said it did not trust the
conclusions of the examination conducted by Dutch
pathologists Sunday, the day after Milosevic was found
dead in his prison cell.
The UN war crimes tribunal said preliminary results
showed Milosevic died of a heart attack.
"It's a great regret that they did not heed our
numerous appeals for an examination," said Leo
Bokeria, head of the Bakulev Clinic in Moscow,
claiming Milosevic's life could have been saved with
proper treatment.
"The point is that a man who had suffered from a
complex of illnesses of the heart and vascular system
was not examined adequately, and thus naturally he
could not be cured," Bokeria said.
Earlier Tuesday, Milosevic's son had said that the
funeral would take place in Moscow.
"The Belgrade authorities do not allow it, they want
to avoid it. We do not have any other choice," Marko
Milosevic said at a Moscow airport before flying to
the Netherlands.
Milosevic said Monday that the family wanted the
funeral in Belgrade, but might ask for a temporary
burial in Moscow if the Serbian authorities failed to
guarantee the safety of his mother, who fled Serbia in
2003 while under indictment on corruption.
Russia was an ally of Milosevic while he was in power,
and he had asked for medical treatment in Moscow
before he died.
Milosevic died in prison Saturday months before a
verdict was expected in his trial on war crimes dating
back to the wars that accompanied the bloody collapse
of Yugoslavia. His trial was officially closed
Tuesday.
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