The broadcasting media in predominantly Muslim areas of the country quoted a statement issued by the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal on his death with commentaries depicting him as a negative historical figure.
The spokesman for the leading Bosnian Croat party, whose acronym is HDZ BiH, Miso Relota, expressed regret at the fact that victims of the idea of a Greater Serbia, which was advocated by Milosevic, would not receive satisfaction in the form of a final court ruling.
The head of the Institute for Missing Persons, Amor Masovic, agreed that Milosevic's death before a final court verdict was handed down deprived the Bosniaks of satisfaction of seeing him found guilty of atrocities committed by his followers in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia,
Now the Bosniaks can only hope that a ruling of the International Court of Justice in the genocide lawsuit which Bosnia has lodged against Belgrade can offer a judicial remedy, Masovic was quoted by the Sarajevo-based ONASA news agency as saying.
The electronic media in the Serb entity mainly carried reactions in which the Hague tribunal was blamed for Milosevic's death and statements by local Serb politicians who expressed regret at the death of former Yugoslav and Serbian president.
The entity's president Dragan Cavic portrayed Milosevic as "a historic man" whose death put an end to an era.
Covic also said that he believed that in case Milosevic had lived through to the end of the trial before the ICTY, this would help clarify many vague things.
Drago Vukovic, an advisor to Borislav Paravac, the Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency, has said that Milosevic's death interrupted his brilliant defence" in which he would have proved that there was no aggression or genocide in Bosnia."
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia charged Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia, and crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.
A Bosnian Serb association of former prisoners of war described the news of Milosevic's death as "a tragedy for the entire Serb people".