Today marks 16 years since Slobodan Milosevic passed away

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Today marks the 16th anniversary of the death of Slobodan Milosevic (1941-2006), President of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia, President of the Socialist Party of Serbia and a Hague indictee.

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Milosevic died of a heart attack on March 11, 2006 while in custody of the Hague Tribunal, where he had been since June 28, 2002. He died during the trial he was put on, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo and Croatia and for genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was arrested in Belgrade on April 1, 2001 for abuse of office, and based on a decree of the Government of Serbia, extradited to the Hague Tribunal on June 28, 2001. Slobodan Milosevic's body was delivered from The Hague to Belgrade on March 15, 2006.

He was buried in the yard of his wife Mirjana Markovic's family home in Pozarevac, and none of the closest family members attended the funeral.

The funeral was attended by top officials of the Socialist Party of Serbia, except for its current president Ivica Dacic, as well as then Serbian Radical Party Deputy and later Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Duma Deputy Sergei Baburin and Russian General Leonid Ivashov, as well as a former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Slobodan Milosevic's ten-year rule ended in 2000 with the victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition's candidate Vojislav Kostunica.

(Telegraf.rs)