Iconic Serbian bulldozer for sale

Protesters used the bulldozer to storm government buildings Enlarge Image

A bulldozer that propelled protesters around Belgrade during the uprising against the late former leader Slobodan Milosevic has gone on sale.

The yellow bulldozer became an icon of the October 2000 revolt against Milosevic when it was used to storm the offices of a state-run TV station.

It is being advertised on an auction website as "the historical excavator that collapsed communism in Serbia".

Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial at The Hague on war crimes charges.

He was forced to leave office after hundreds of thousands of protesters converged on government buildings in Belgrade and clashed with his security forces.

A new Serbian government extradited Milosevic to The Hague in 2001, where a UN court put him on trial for his role in the wars that had accompanied the collapse of the former Yugoslavia.

Scarred by clashes

The bulldozer was brought to Belgrade on a trailer from the town of Cacak.

It helped a group of protesters push past barricades to the national assembly building, before being used to break into the offices of a state-run TV channel.

Protesters then occupied the building, which had housed a police unit blamed for firing into the crowd.

The bulldozer is being offered for sale on the Limundo auction website, with a starting price of 7.1m Serbian dinars (90,000 euros, $128,000).

It is not in working condition and prospective buyers are advised on the website that they will have to arrange to collect the vehicle.

According to the description of the bulldozer on the site, its excavator and front, back and side glass panels are still scarred by the clashes that took place in Belgrade seven years ago.