Not everyone in Serbia was crying that day

This I didn’t know. After Milošević had died in his cell in the Hague in March 2006 while being tried for war crimes, a group of about 3.000 citizens of Belgrade (mainly young people) walked down the main pedestrian street carrying balloons and chanting “Good riddance”. The march ended in a park where they let go of the balloons.

Sadly, a much, much bigger crowd (I read on B92 it was 80.000) was lamenting the death of the criminal in front of the parliament at the same time. But still, a nice little story of a group of dissidents. I imagine it wasn’t very easy for them, not least because of the massive verbal abuse against them I’ve found on the internet just looking for a couple of articles for more info. There were also plenty of violent attacks by Milošević’s fans in those days, among others on journalists from B92. A lot of buildings were set on fire and demolished as well.

The photos below I found in a Facebook group remembering the event.