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After the war fires, he himself put in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova, Milosevic experienced at the end, how Belgrade was in fire, this time, by the Serbs themselves, being fed up with the Hitler dictatorship in the Balkans.
On Friday night, the last act of the last Balkan tragedy ended in Belgrade. Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia, indicted for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was forced to Hail the victory of his opponent in the 24th of September elections, Vojslav Kostunica.
The show is over, but the game is on behind the scenes, mostly far from the eyes of the enthusiastic public, tired of the 13 years rule of Slobodan Milosevic, after four lost wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosova, with some 300 thousand victims, mostly civilians.
The butcher of the Balkans was avoided by the political and the military scene of Belgrade. He was forced to leave the bloody thrown, due to the majority of the Serb people, and the best part of the police and the army joined them.
Milosevic and his supporters didn't want to recognize the victory, but this time the people were ready to go to the end, having the support of all the democratic world.
The smoke and the flames in the Yugoslavia parliament, in TV Belgrade, and some other governmental buildings, as well as the readiness of some 5OO.OOO Serbs who gathered in Belgrade to force Milosevic out or die there, were signs that the last stone of Berlin Wall was thrown in Serbia, that a velvet revolution was winning, like in Lisbon, Prague, but with a bloody past, stained with the blood of the other people of the former Yugoslavia, , the best part of them now independent with their sovereign states.
The Serb blood was not thrown these days in Belgrade, only two citizens were killed accidentally, many shops were ransacked, the people became together with the police and the army, which didn't want to go against its own people as they did against the people of Kosova, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Milosevic handed over power in Belgrade when he lost the last hope for support from the official Moscow. He had become ready to activate the paramilitary groups and the special police units, but when Putin hailed Kostunica's victory in the elections, this was the end for Milosevic.
The miners started, the students and the unemployed finished the job
Milosevic came to power 13 years before, through violence, through activating the lower classes of his people and many intellectuals. The basic point for him was the myth on Kosova, a batlle with the Osmans, the Balkan army lost in 1389. This battle was proclaimed as a victory by the Serbs, similar to the victories proclaimed against all the people of the former Yugoslavia. He didn't hide the aspirations to expell all the Albanians from Kosova.
After his manipulation with the Serb and Montenegrin people, using their nationalism, Milosevic opened his secrete plans, attacking in turn Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosova.
He lost Kosova battle because of the rezistance of the Albanian people and the three months air campaign of NATO.
His defeat in Kosova, both military and political, marks the revolt of the people in Serbia, not just because of the military defeats, but also because of the poverty. Before NATO bombing, there were some 1 million unemployed in Serbia. NATO bombs destroyed hundreds of economical centers and left some 1 million others unemployed. The common Serbs live in pennies, their politial, military and police leaders, live a luxurous life because of the mafia groups related to the head of the state.
The revolt which started in the coal mine in Kostolac, and the protests all around Serbia, with a majority of students, intellectuals and unemployed people, promised the end of Milosevic, but it was not known if it would finish like in Rumania or Latin America, where the mafia presidents have managed to leave, but temporarily.
What might happen
Milosevic left power, but it is now known yet in what speed Kostunica, will repair his mistakes. The West has promised aid depending on the speed of the demoratization of the country, but there are many unclear things: Kostunica had promised before the elections that he is not going to send Milosevic in Hague. Was it a way to win votes of even the extreme right in Serbia, such as Sesejl and the others?! This remains to be seen.
But Belgrade has to met a series of conditions, cooperation with Haguer tribunal, release of some 1 thousand Albanians held in prisons in Serbia, democratization of the country, complete demilitarization, a solution for the political status of Montenegro and Kosova, looking towards independence, meeting the European standarts, if it wants to join Europe, cleaning the army, the police, the special services, diplomacy and the administration, by those who planned crimes, and implemented those policies. These remain long term duties, if Serbia wants really to heal its wounds.
Milosevic declared that he will remain in the country and he will deal with his party alone. All the dictators want that, they want to make people forget their crimes, by proclaiming an overall amnesty.
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