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Bosnian, Kosovo and Slovene press comment on Milosevic's death

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SARAJEVO/PRISTINA, March 12 (Hina) - The news of the death of formerYugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was on the covers of all dailiesin Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo on Sunday.
SARAJEVO/PRISTINA, March 12 (Hina) - The news of the death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was on the covers of all dailies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo on Sunday.

"The Balkan Butcher Dies in his Hague Prison Cell" reads a headline on the cover of Bosnia's largest-circulation newspaper "Dnevni avaz", which dedicated a special article to this event, carrying numerous comments from the country and the world.

Analysing the 13-year-long rule of "the architect of wars", the daily says Milosevic has escaped justice because he did not live to hear his verdict, although his death is a kind of relief for the victims' families.

"It was God's will that he leave on the 11th day (of the month)," the daily quotes members of the association "Women of Srebrenica", who gathered in the northern town of Tuzla on that date, as they do every month, for a peaceful protest to seek justice for their loved ones killed in the war.

"Oslobodjenje" daily from Sarajevo, the Banja Luka-based "Nezavisne novine" and the Mostar-based "Dnevni list" report about Milosevic's death on their cover pages.

"A Banker, Politician, President and Criminal", reads the headline of an article on Milosevic's life by Gojko Beric, a commentator for Oslobodjenje and one of the most prominent Bosnian journalists.

Milosevic's death does not erase his guilt for committed crimes, says Beric.

"Nezavisne novine", known for its strong opposition to Milosevic at the time he was in power, carries comments from the country which share the conclusion that Milosevic's death marks the end of an era, and comments from the world suggesting that his death could mark a new beginning for Serbia.

The daily reports that the Bosnian Serb television network on Saturday night received threats from a group of hooligans and numerous phone calls by its viewers protesting against the network's failure to discontinue its regular programmes.

Unlike the Bosnian Serb broadcaster or the Serbian state television network, which continued broadcasting the national contest for the Eurovision song contest, the Bosnian state broadcaster BHT 1 changed its schedule, with the prime time news broadcast lasting an hour longer. Instead of a movie, it broadcast one of the episodes of the BBC's series "The Death of Yugoslavia".

Kosovo's three Albanian-language dailies gave extensive coverage to Milosevic's death.

"There are no words to comfort thousands of families from Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. They have no good words for the man whose punishment is well deserved," says "Express" daily in an article headlined "Escapes Justice".

The leading daily "Koha Ditore" says that the Hague tribunal should wrap up the trial of Milosevic by declaring him guilty or close down.

Milosevic's death has brought him back to life in Serbia where he will become a martyr and the country will lose its last chance of even a symbolic catharsis, while hundreds of thousands of victims of the Great-Serbian ideology will be left without symbolic satisfaction, reads a commentary in the Ljubljana-based daily "Delo" of Sunday.

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