Pozarevac

It was not the grandiloquent send-off he might have hoped for. Instead of a triumphal state funeral, Slobodan Milosevic — the ”Butcher of the Balkans”, and the man who brought war and slaughter to former Yugoslavia — was ignominiously buried on Saturday in his back garden, next to his favourite lime tree.

Feelings are running high in the Serbian town of Pozarevac, whose most famous son, former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, is coming home to rest in peace. As preparations step up for a funeral on Saturday under the gaze of the world, 500 people from his Socialist Party gathered in the local cultural centre and roundly accused the UN war crimes court where he died of killing him.