Milosevic was found dead in his cell in the detention unit of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Saturday morning.
Sonja Biserko, an outspoken human rights activist in Serbia, said that it was bad for Serbia that Milosevic's trial before the ICTY was not been completed and that it was now impossible to have a verdict on his polices that had burdened Serbia for 20 years.
She was quoted by local media as saying that the death of Milosevic, as the most prominent indictee, and the recent suicide of a crucial witness, Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Babic, in the Scheveningen detention union could have negative repercussions for the tribunal's work.
The leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party, Cedomir Jovanovic, who was involved in the 2001 arrest of Milosevic in Belgrade, said that it would have been better had the trial been completed with a final ruling.
Jovanovic said he expected that the fact that Milosevic died in the detention centre would be used for political manipulation.