Downfall of a Strongman All photos Protesters storm entrance of the Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 ← → 1 / 29 All photos Downfall of a Strongman 29 photos 1 Protesters storm entrance of the Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 2 Protesters converge on the Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 3 Protesters use frontloader to storm Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 4 Parliament building engulfed in smoke in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 5 Protesters on top of iconic statue in front of the Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 6 Protesters gather around the Parliament building as it is engulfed in smoke in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 7 A protester carrying a mock tombstone for Slobodan Milosevic outside the Parliament building in Belgrade on Friday, October 6, 2000. The previous day, hundreds of thousands of people stormed key government buildings forcing Milosevic to go into hiding 8 Police officers greeted by bystanders after departing their positions near the Parliament building in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000. With the outpouring of demonstrators in the streets, important bastions of state power defected to the opposition 9 Parliament building engulfed in smoke in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 10 Ljubisav Djokić nicknamed Joe, left, and Milan Katic are cheered by protesters in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000. Minutes earlier, Djokic and Katic charged their front loader through a hail of bullets into the front entrance of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that for over a decade has been... 11 Police officers escorted by oposition activists after surrendering their police station to the crowd in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 12 Ljubisav Djokić nicknamed Joe, left, and Milan Katic are cheered by protesters in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000. Minutes earlier Djokic and Katic charged front loader through a hail of bullets into front entrance of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that has been for over a decade bastion of... 13 Police officers greeted by bystabders after surrendering police station in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000 14 In the late evening hours, protesters read pro-Miloscevic newspapers "Novosti" with a headline “Will of the People Won” in front of Parliament building in Belgrade Friday, October 6, 2000. After important bastions of state power defected to the opposition, word spread through Bel... 15 Hundreds of thousands of people spent the night in the center of Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000. Protesters celebrated the victory, but feared possible intervention by the Army and other security forces of the Milosevic's regime 16 A perfume shop named "Scandal" on one of Belgrade's main shopping streets, Terazije, owned by Slobodan Milosevic's son Marko was trashed and looted in Belgrade on Thursday, October 5, 2000. Graffiti scrawled on the wall read: "Žali se tati" (Go complain to your dad). Nearby i... 17 Bodyguard draws a gun at the main entrance of the Serbian Parliament, after bystanders heckled Vojislav Seselj,the Serbian deputy prime minister and an ultra-nationalist ally of Slobodan Milosevic, in Belgrade on Tuesday, October 10, 2000 18 Belgraders take pictures with the remains of burned cars behind the Parliament building in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 19 Belgraders inspect damage behind the Parliament building in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 20 The clean-up begins outside the Parliament building in the center of Belgrade, Saturday, October 7, 2000. Two days earlier demonstrators stormed important bastions of state power that quickly defected to the opposition. Slobodan Milosevic conceded defeat in presidential elections stating in a t... 21 President elect Vojislav Kostunica before inauguration in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 22 A citizen displays a fake ballot recovered from the parliament building in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 23 Serbia's Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic waves to the crowd after arriving at the Belgrade airport on Sunday, October 15, 2000. This was his first visit to Serbia since 1992, when he briefly came, but soon began to openly criticize Milosevic for destructive policies. 24 President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) Vojislav Kostinica and his wife Zorica Radović welcome Serbia's Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic in Belgrade on Sunday, October 15, 2000. Crown Prince Aleksandar is on the first visit to his homeland since the end of commu... 25 Greece's foreign minister George Papandreou, flanked by his Norwegian counterpart Thorbjorn Jagland on the right, and president elect Vojislslav Kostunica confer prior to the presidental inauguration in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000. 26 Bystanders greet president Vojislav Kostunica in downtown Belgrade on Monday, October 9, 2000 27 Vojislav Kostinica arrives at the presidental inauguration in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 28 Vojislav Kostinica signs the presidental oath during his inauguration in Belgrade on Saturday, October 7, 2000 29 Leader of the united opposition Zoran Djindjić, flanked by Nikola Šainovic, left and Milomir Minić from SPS talk to the press in Belgrade on Friday, October 15, 2000 × ← 1 / 29 →
