POZAREVAC, Serbia and Montenegro Mar 19 (CNN): Slobodan Milosevic's remains have been laid to rest in the yard of his family's Serbian home after thousands of supporters gathered in Belgrade to mourn the former Yugoslav president's passing. The coffin holding Milosevic's body was lowered into the ground in the provincial town of Pozarevac, some 80 km (50 miles) south of Belgrade, as darkness fell and a brass band played somber music. Milosevic, aged 64, died last Saturday of heart failure in his cell at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he was on trial for his role in the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Thousands lined the funeral route to Pozarevac as a hearse slowly carried the coffin, CNN's Alessio Vinci reported.
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