Amid the celebrations at last week's overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, one woman's death passed almost unnoticed. The Guardian When Jasmina Jovanovic died during the recent tumultuous events in Serbia, the common reaction among people in Belgrade was that it was a small price to pay for change. Others have described her as the final victim of Slobodan Milosevic, whose 13 years of tyranny ended surprisingly peacefully last week. When Jovanovic died last Thursday, she became the only person to lose her life in the Serbian uprising.
Witnesses say it was a freak accident.
Her rucksack slipped and pulled her under the wheels as pro-democracy protesters stormed the building. Staff at the Urgent Centar, Belgrade hospital's emergency clinic, say she was dead on arrival. Jovanovic was buried on Saturday in a small cemetery in her home village of Milosevac. But five days after her death, she has been virtually forgotten. As the new president, Vojislav Kostunica, attempts to assert his control of the country, news of her death has been limited to a few paragraphs on the inside pages of Serbian newspapers.