Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav leader and a war-crimes defendant, died of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Hague on March 11. After much debate, it was decided to bury him privately in his hometown of Pozarevac, 80 km of Serbia's capital Belgrade, on March 18. Until then, following the government's controversial decision, his coffin has been placed on display in Belgrade's Museum of the Revolution. Below are some bloggers’ reactions to Milosevic's death, his upcoming funeral, and the future of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). “Finally, the Post-Milosevic Era,” writes Eric Gordy of East Ethnia: The news is probably good news for Serbia, which will be hostage to one person fewer. […] It is bad news for ICTY […] […] the Tribunal will complete its activity without having completed its most important trial. The decisions which led to a frequently interrupted trial lasting years will be questioned far into the future, and will probably be used as a negative example for future tribunals. […] while anybody's death is a cause for regret, what is to be regretted most about Milosevic is that during his life, he was able to take so many other people down with him. srdjankosutic.com notes, too, that, hopefully, a new era has begun for Serbia: […] His death ends a whole era of modern Serbian history, and as someone who participated in the silent 5th October revolution when we overthrow him in 2000 I just wish to let the past behind, and move forward. […] Henry Shepherd of Thayer and Charlesfield offers a compilation of responses from a number of Balkan bloggers, including this one from Seesaw of Balkan-Scissors and Sarajevo Photoblog: […] Personally I can say I did not follow his trial – I was a living witness of his political career and saw enough with my own eyes. I did never think well of his ideas… To me Milosevic was nationalist and populist, and the politician who played the main role in dissolution of Yugoslavia. I must add I spent the war in Sarajevo (1992-1995) and saw so much suffering… I am not Moslem but visited Srebrenica and could not believe my eyes… But I also saw many graves in Republic Srpska of Serb soldiers, and for a decade now I have been witnessing the poverty of people from former Yugoslavia – Serbia particularly – all that being – mostly – the result of ambitious, nationalist and populist policy of Slobodan Milosevic. But as you could notice on my blog I am not willing “to join the company” so to say and prefer to keep my mind focused on other things. After all Milosevic does not deserve so much publicity, never did, and always had it. Other bloggers who contributed their opinions to Henry Shepherd are Rachel Long of Pustolovina: Adventure in Serbian, Sasa Nikolovski of Bečej – Óbecse: My town, my river, my people, Zeljka Grzinic of green-mind.com, Ed Alexander of Balkan Baby, and Aleksandar Macasev. An American in Belgrade reports from the scene in Belgrade one day after Milosevic's death: […] It looks like, so far, international news agencies are having to really scratch around to find any visible signs of public reaction. […] Viktor of Belgrade Blog makes a similar observation four days later: Although some world media report as if the whole Serbia is sad because dictators departure, the truth is somewhat diferent: only one thousand people gathered in front of the museum to give their last respect to the dictator. Now i know that this is about one thousand people too much, but in a country of more than 8 milion people, one can say that this is really an unsignificant support. Viktor also posts a March 14 letter announcing the “‘anti burial’ event planned to coincide with Mr Milosevic's burial in Belgrade,” before it was clear that the funeral would take place elsewhere: […] the guiding idea has been born for a symbolic staging of an ‘Anti Burial’, the motive being to show the rest of Serbia, the Balkans and the world one last time that Milosevic was never really representing the free thinking, democratically oriented citizens of Serbia and therefore the Serbian government should not allow for Mr Milosevic's burial to take place in Belgrade or his family members to return to Serbia while still being issued with the Interpol arrest warrant. And, Viktor's advice to those who happen to be in Serbia's capital at the same time Milosevic's body is there: […] Anyway, if you are this close like i am, you better prepare some garlic, holy water and other protection, just in case.