Milosevic's Body Returned To Serbia For Burial

The coffin of Slobodan Milosevic is placed in a hearse by officials of the Socialist Party of Serbia (epa)

March 15, 2006 -- Slobodan Milosevic's body was today brought back to Belgrade from The Hague, where the former Yugoslav president died on March 11 while on trial for genocide and war crimes.

A small group of Milosevic's supporters was at Belgrade airport to greet the coffin.

Officials of Milosevic's Socialist Party said the country's former leader said he will be laid to rest on March 18 in his birthplace, Pozarevac, a town some 80 kilometers east of Belgrade.

The party has said it will put his coffin on display so people can pay their last respects.

Milosevic's son Marko, who had traveled to The Hague to pick up the body, returned on March 15 to Moscow, where he has lived for several years.

(compiled from agency reports)