Legacy MattersJasmina Tesanovic reports from Belgrade on the Milosevic funeral at Boing Boing
Reasonably, Milosevic should be buried in an anonymous mass grave, if only that proposal would not offend his numerous victims, whose scattered, unnamed bodies already lie all over the former Yugoslav territories, without a name on a headstone or flowers from their families.
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Milosevic's party is honored that he will be buried in his garden under a tree as a sentimental token of his and his wife's big romance ( for which the whole world had to pay, since he used to execute the people she didn’t like). The democratic opposition says it is barbarous to bury people outside graveyards. This little garden grave is a parody of the mass graves he created.
The wife of the murdered journalist Curuvija reminds us that Milosevic and his family are asking for sympathy and presidential treatment -- although they murdered the previous President of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, and cemented his corpse into a bridge construction.
This is not Serbian black humor. Unfortunately, this is Serbian truth and reconciliation.
His body will be exposed in the Museum of Revolution until Saturday noon when it will be transported to his garden and buried. Our previous most famous president Tito, buried his favorite wife and horse in his garden here in Belgarde; there is some structure and continuity in the Balkans notwithstanding all multiethnic bloodshed and ideological diversities.