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Russian Information Agency (Novosti) March 16, 2006 Milosevic to get worthy funeral - Serbian party leader MOSCOW - Serbian socialists said Thursday they would organize an honorable funeral for former president Slobodan Milosevic. Zoran Anjelkovic, General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), of which Milosevic was honorary president, said the party was in contact with Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to coordinate funeral procedures, adding that the party did not want to turn the funeral into a political manifestation and expected no trouble. "The SPS does not envisage any disorders, although several thousand people are expected to come," Anjelkovic said. "Our goal is not to make funeral a political act, but to let our people to say farewell to their [former] president." He said people from all over the country would be able to pay their respects to Milosevic from 1 p.m. GMT Thursday until 11 a.m. GMT Saturday, with a farewell ceremony set for Belgrade's square near the parliament building from 1 p.m. on March 18. Milosevic's body will then be taken for burial to his native town of Pozarevac, 45 miles from Belgrade. The local legislative assembly voted Thursday to have the former Yugoslav leader buried outside his ancestral house. Saturday will be declared a day of mourning in Pozarevac. Milosevic's brother, Borislav, who is currently recovering from heart surgery at a Moscow clinic, said he was not certain he would be able to attend the funeral. "It is unlikely I will go to the funeral. Doctors say I shouldn't go in such a state and need to stay in the hospital under monitoring for another three to five days," he said. "I am getting better now. But there is no clarity yet as to when I will be discharged." However, Borislav said he had booked a ticket to Belgrade just in case his doctors allow him to go. Milosevic, 64, was found dead in his prison cell March 11. Preliminary reports suggest he died of a heart attack. The former Yugoslav president was on trial at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on charges of war crimes and genocide. Milosevic suffered from a heart condition and high blood pressure, but the Hague Tribunal refused to grant him temporary release for medical treatment in Russia for fear he would flee the trial. ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=18069 Agence France-Presse March 16, 2006 Milosevic body goes on public display, supporters crowd in BELGRADE - The body of Slobodan Milosevic was put on public display in Belgrade as up to 1,000 supporters converged to pay their final respects to the former Yugoslav president. A grey minivan carrying his coffin arrived at the city's Revolution Museum at around 1:30 pm (1230 GMT), some 90 minutes after it had been scheduled for display. There was no explanation for the delay, but the crowd of supporters waited patiently on the steps of the communist-era building. "Serbia will remain inconsolable because there is no one more patriotic than he was, who has defended the country like he did," said Milovan Majic, 72. Jovan Gavrilovic, a 68-year-old pensioner, said Serbia's opponents had "won a battle by killing Slobodan but they will not win the war. Serbia will end up winning. "We will continue his fight against Western criminals." Milosevic died Saturday of a heart attack aged 64 while he was on trial at the UN court in The Hague of war crimes over his role in the Balkans wars. His body was flown back to Belgrade on Wednesday, ahead of a funeral in his hometown of Pozarevac, southeast of the capital, on Saturday. Serbian authorities have refused to give him a state funeral because of his past. However, officials in his Socialist Party organised the display of his body on Thursday and Friday so people can pay their respects. ------------------------------------------------------ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/16/content_4307458.htm Xinhua News Agency March 16, 2006 Milosevic could have been cured: Russian doctor MOSCOW - A Russian doctor who examined the autopsy results of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's body said on Wednesday that Milosevic could have been cured. "Milosevic belonged to the category of patients with a light coronary condition. He had only one vessel affected. It could have been cured," Leo Bokeria, head of Moscow's Bakulev Cardiovascular Surgery Center, was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying after returning from The Hague, where four Russian doctors including Bokeria checked Milosevic's autopsy results. Milosevic could have lived for many more years if he had been treated "in any specialized clinic, especially a clinic like ours," Bokeria said. Milosevic was found dead at the tribunal's detention center in The Hague on Saturday. UN war crimes tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov said Sunday an autopsy conducted by Dutch toxicologist in the presence of Serbian doctors revealed Milosevic died of a heart attack. Bokeria, who was shown the video of the autopsy in The Hague, ruled out falsification in Milosevic's autopsy and said Russian doctors had found no signs of violent death. Milosevic had suffered from chronic heart problems and high blood pressure. Last month, the UN war crimes tribunal turned down Milosevic's request for provisional release to go to Russia for medical treatment. Milosevic's body was flown back to Belgrade from Amsterdam on Wednesday afternoon. His funeral was set to be held on Saturday in his hometown of Pozarevac, some 80 km east of Belgrade, a senior official from his Socialist Party said. Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
