However, international pressure is building to have Milosevic turned over to the tribunal. Milosevic was planning to appeal the detention order, according to his lawyer Toma Fila. The head of Serbia's Public Security force told the Associated Press that Milosevic's bodyguards wounded four police officers during the first attempt to arrest the former president on Saturday morning. Three of the bodyguards have been arrested, according to the report. The radio station reported that Milosevic would be charged with conspiring to carry out an armed uprising.
War crimes remain a difficult topic for the Yugoslav nation.
Milosevic's supporters fought a war and they now have to come to terms with the fact that many of their own people were involved in horrendous and brutal crimes. Many Serbs wanted to see Milosevic punished for allegedly lining his own pockets at the expense of the Serb citizens, rather than for the war crimes he allegedly committed in Kosovo. Milosevic was forced from office by a mass uprising in October 2000. Many speculate that the level of mismanagement, misgovernment, downright corruption and gangster-like practices that Milosovic has been accused of practicing will be exposed during the trial, and that at some point, he may be called to The Hague based on information that may come out of this trial. For the rest of the day's top world stories, click here , to our International News page.