Two sides to Serbia's story - by ALEXANDER BRENDAN ZECEVIC
'WE are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be," said Slobodan Milosevic in his most famous, most notorious speech delivered in 1989 in Kosovo Field at the scene of Serbia's most famous battle - a battle hailed as a "heroic defeat". It was a speech that cemented his place as a political figure and is regarded as a landmark in the resurgence of Serb nationalism, and a milestone marking the beginning of the end of Yugoslavia. But nearly two decades later and after a succession of wars, these words still carry a resonance with Serbian people who feel vilified and victimised by the West.In a perverse way, and in the eyes of the minority of supporters at his funeral today, he has become like the Serb heroes of Kosovo Field in 1389, who fought the invading Ottoman army, killed the Sultan Murad and were beaten.
Echoing his own words from that same speech, Milosevic "remained undefeated when losing".
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