The protesters gathered in Republic Square and headed to the Winner statue at Kalemegdan, where the Sava enters the Danube, releasing thousands of balloons towards the west. The symbolic gesture was meant to show a pro-west orientation and a turning towards Europe.
"It's over for good," the protesters shouted, condemning the commemoration organised in Belgrade by Milosevic's Socialist Party which pooled 80,000 people and turned into a rally of condemnation of the West for conspiracy against Serbia.
The protesters said the funeral in Milosevic's birth place of Pozarevac, 80 km south of Belgrade, without family members was uncivilised.
Among the protesters were Zarko Korac and Vladan Batic, former deputy prime minister and justice minister respectively in the government of slain PM Zoran Djindjic, which extradited Milosevic to the UN court.
Also in attendance were prominent antiwar activists and members of the G 17 Plus group in the Serbian government.
Over the past couple of days, Belgrade residents were called on to participate in the protest against Milosevic via an SMS reading: "Spring arrives three days earlier. Come so that we can wish that Milosevic should never happen again".