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Milosevic's coffin to be exhibited in Revolution Museum

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BELGRADE, March 15 (Hina) - The coffin with the body of SlobodanMilosevic will be displayed in the Museum of Revolution in Belgradefrom Thursday to noon Saturday for public viewing, the Vice Presidentof the Socialist Party of Serbia, Milorad Vucelic, said on Wednesdayevening.
BELGRADE, March 15 (Hina) - The coffin with the body of Slobodan Milosevic will be displayed in the Museum of Revolution in Belgrade from Thursday to noon Saturday for public viewing, the Vice President of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Milorad Vucelic, said on Wednesday evening.

The museum is in the wealthy residential area of Dedinje, and Milosevic's coffin will be displayed near the House of Flowers where the long-standing leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, was buried in 1980.

The deceased Milosevic was brought back to Serbia in a casket on board of a JAT plane on Wednesday afternoon.

"There was no special flight. A regular Yugoslav airlines plane carrying the remains of the former Yugoslav president from Amsterdam touched down at Belgrade airport among snow-covered fields," the Reuters news agency reported adding that "his coffin, draped in the Serbian flag, was kissed by senior officials of his Socialist Party, then covered with a wreath of red roses. No government officials were present."

Milosevic's son Marko, who had flown from Russia to the Netherlands to collect his father's body, had not come in Belgrade but proceeded to Moscow, which was confirmed by Vucelic.

According to Vucelic, Milosevic will be most probably buried in the grounds of the family property in his hometown of Pozarevac, some 80 kilometres southeast of the Serbian capital.

Vucelic expects that the Milosevic family, including his widow Mirjana Markovic who has been hiding in Russia for three years and his son and daughter, will come to Pozarevac for the funeral, which will he held without state and military honours on Saturday afternoon.

The town council in Pozarevac will convene on Thursday morning to discuss the request of Milosevic's SPS party and family for the burial in the family house's yard.

Supporters of the SPS party on Wednesday afternoon physically attacked a TV crew of the local broadcasting company 'Televizija B92' that arrived in front of the St. Sava hospital to cover the coffin's transfer in the hospital's mortuary where Milosevic's remains will stay overnight.

About 300 SPS supporters, who gathered outside the hospital, shouted insults at the TV crew and attacked some crew members.

The police prevented the escalation of the conflict, and the television station announced that it was going to press charges against the attackers.

Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic has said he is not expecting any incidents in relations to the organisation of the funeral.

(Hina) ms

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