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The former president of Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic once, before his arrest and extradition to The Hague, had offers to hide in Russia or go to another country and change his identity, but he refused after a short conversation with his wife Mira. Markovic, they revealed. for Kurir, direct participants in these turbulent days of March 2001.
Serbian Socialist Party Vice President Slavica Đukić Dejanović said that there were several offers that came from outside Serbia, and that allowed Milošević to continue his life in a completely different way.
– He could have hidden abroad, changed his identity, but did not even consider those offers. He was fully aware that his surrender and going to Bacvanska Prison were only one step away from going to The Hague. For him, Professor Markovic was the sole authority.
He spoke to her briefly and no offer came into play. Milosevic calmly prepared to go to prison. Since there was no electricity or water in the villa in Užička, he shaved with acidic water under the generator lights; our interlocutor recalled the events on the eve of the famous night between March 31 and April 1, 2001.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic said the most serious offer to Milosevic was related to Russia.
– A Russian plane should have come to look for him and he should continue to live as his family did. However, neither he nor any of us considered such options. He said that you could not be the supreme commander of the army in the war, which suffered so much, and escape when it was all over. It was operationally and technically feasible to change identity without anyone knowing.
A tumultuous historic farewell
Milosevic was officially arrested in the early morning of April 1, at 4.49 a.m., as reported by the media at the time. Two days earlier, there was great tension in the village of Dedinje, but also in its surroundings, where Milosevic’s supporters were gathering. His surrender was accompanied by difficult negotiations, police cordons, incidents, brandishing weapons and even shootings. The former president was transferred to the district prison and on June 28, in Vidovdan, he was extradited to the Hague Court. There he died in 2006, without receiving a verdict.
A Petar Petrović was passing the border with a passport and he didn’t even have to know the country we were coming to. And then when the new authorities arrived, it was said that they would not create a problem for the removal of Milosevic. I can’t tell you the name, but it was on sale. I repeat, none of us thought to use it, Sainovic told us, who, after Milosevic, ended up in The Hague and received a conviction for crimes in Kosovo and Metohija.
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