Or stinking:
Posted on 03/14/2006 2:41:53 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
THE body of Slobodan Milosevic has been taken to a morgue at Amsterdam airport, en route to an unknown final resting place, while his family battles with Serbian officials over where to bury the former Yugoslav leader.
Shortly after Milosevic's son Marko claimed the body, it was driven under a motorcycle escort to Schiphol airport, where it was due to remain overnight.
A morgue official, Theo de Aardt, said he thought it would be flown to Moscow tomorrow.
"We think to Russia but we don't know that for sure," he said.
In Belgrade, a local court revoked a warrant for the arrest of Milosevic's widow, Mira Markovic, enabling her to return to Serbia for the first time in three years and attend his funeral if it is held there.
But the ruling was laced with stringent conditions, including an order to surrender her passport and to report to a Serbian court over fraud charges on March 23 or face arrest.
Milosevic's party and his son also complained authorities were refusing to provide a decent burial plot at the city's main cemetery.
"The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event," Marko Milosevic said.
He said he had received permission from Moscow authorities for temporary inhumation of the body in the Russian capital.
Slobodan Milosevic, 64, was found dead on Saturday in his prison cell while on trial at the UN court in The Hague for genocide, other war crimes and crimes against humanity over his role in the brutal Balkans conflicts.
An autopsy by Dutch and Serbian pathologists listed the cause of death as a heart attack but Russia despatched four doctors with the younger Mr Milosevic to check over the findings.
Fresh questions emerged about the circumstances of death after Donald Uges, a Dutch toxicologist who examined Milosevic's blood two weeks before he died, claimed he had taken drugs to neutralise the effects of heart medication and secure "a one-way ticket to Moscow" for treatment.
Meanwhile the UN court formally closed the book on the historic war crimes trial, taking just a few minutes to wrap up a four-year case that heard evidence of some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
Presiding judge Patrick Robinson said the "untimely passing" of the former leader had "deprived not only him, but indeed all the interested parties of a judgement upon the allegations in the indictment".
The Balkans conflicts claimed more than 200,000 lives, including those of 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Serbian President Boris Tadic has rejected demands for a state funeral for Milosevic, citing his role in the wars and his ouster in a popular uprising in 2000.
The former strongman is revered by a hard core of nationalists but reviled by others for bringing shame to the nation.
Ms Markovic, 63, was once a powerful political figure in her own right and had a key influence on her husband. She is believed to have been living in Russia for the past three years.
Darn! Asked and answered before anyone else posted.
"Hellfire, Dark Fire..."
Hardly, try six-foot under.
I suspect he'll be showing up on South Park as Satans new lover.
I'll give you a hint: FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!!!!
"I think Milosevic might already have reached his final destination...and it's HOT, DAMN HOT!"
WHOA...I worry for your safety now. We have a few Slobo apologists here.
Or stinking:
He'll probably have to compete with Chef to become Satan's new lover ;)
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