Imagine someone who must have feared every day for a decade that someone would try to kill him. Imagine that a series of friends turned their backs, that the best brains politely declined to work in the administration or left the country, imagine the empty happiness of having appropriated a lot of money and knowing that you can go safely to very few countries with it, alternatively lock yourself up in a bunker-like villa for the rest of your life. Like many other authoritarian rulers, this one lost sense of reality. His last power manoeuvres were indicative of that, of a very exhausted chessplayer who is losing the game without noticing it. During the hours when the police indirectly and directly helped the revolution, the military allegedly forced Milosevic at gunpoint to meet with and recognize Vojeslav Kostunica as the new president.
Power is a drug.
Like any drug it increases the distance between the person and reality. It seems to prevent Milosevic from acknowledging that it is all over now. He is hardly able to survive without that drug now. The legitimacy of the new democratic Yugoslavia will increase with a trial being completely professional and fair. And to very soon hold new elections.