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|fullname = Slobodan Milošević | |fullname = Slobodan Milošević | ||
|alias = The Butcher of the Balkans<br>The Butcher of Belgrade | |alias = The Butcher of the Balkans<br>The Butcher of Belgrade<br>The Hitler of Yugoslavia | ||
|occupation = President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1997 - 2000)<br>President of Serbia ( | |occupation = President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1997 - 2000)<br>President of Serbia (1991 - 1997) | ||
|origin = Požarevac, Nazi German-occupied Serbia | |origin = Požarevac, Nazi German-occupied Serbia | ||
|type of villain = Genocidal Tyrant | |type of villain = Genocidal Tyrant | ||
|crimes = [[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Human rights violations<br> | |crimes = [[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Human rights violations<br>Embezzlement<br>[[Americophobia]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Persecution of Christians]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Mass [[Murder]] | ||
|goals = Keep Yugoslavia from breaking apart (failed)<br>Establish a "Greater Serbia" (failed) | |goals = Keep Yugoslavia from breaking apart (failed)<br>Establish a "Greater Serbia" (failed) | ||
|hobby = | |hobby = | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Quote|We know how to handle these murderers, these rapists, these criminals. We've done this before … in Drenica in 1946. We killed them. We killed them all. Of course we did not do it all at once. It took some time.|Slobodan Milošević}} | {{Quote|We know how to handle these murderers, these rapists, these criminals. We've done this before … in Drenica in 1946. We killed them. We killed them all. Of course we did not do it all at once. It took some time.|Slobodan Milošević}} | ||
'''Slobodan Milošević''' (August | '''Slobodan Milošević''' (20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav politician who served as the President of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Originally a communist and a member of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], he later renounced communism and embraced Serbian nationalism. His government caused one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 20th century. He has been described as a "modern day Hitler" by many scholars and journalists. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life=== | ===Early life=== | ||
Milošević had ancestral roots from the Lijeva Rijeka village in Podgorica and was of the Vasojevići clan from Montenegro. He was born in Požarevac, four months after the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and raised during the [[Axis Powers]]' occupation of [[World War II]]. He had an older brother Borislav who would later become a diplomat. His parents separated in the aftermath of the war. His father, the Serbian Orthodox theologian Svetozar Milošević, committed suicide in 1962. Svetozar's father Simeun was an officer in the Montenegrin Army. Milošević's mother Stanislava (née Koljenšić), a school teacher and also an active member of the Communist Party, committed suicide in 1972. Her brother (Milošević's maternal uncle) Milisav Koljenšić was a major-general in the Yugoslav People's Army who committed suicide in 1963. | Milošević had ancestral roots from the Lijeva Rijeka village in Podgorica and was of the Vasojevići clan from Montenegro. He was born in Požarevac, four months after the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and raised during the [[Axis Powers]]' occupation of [[World War II]]. He had an older brother Borislav who would later become a diplomat. His parents separated in the aftermath of the war. His father, the Serbian Orthodox theologian Svetozar Milošević, committed suicide in 1962. Svetozar's father Simeun was an officer in the Montenegrin Army. Milošević's mother Stanislava (née Koljenšić), a school teacher and also an active member of the Communist Party, committed suicide in 1972. Her brother (Milošević's maternal uncle) Milisav Koljenšić was a major-general in the Yugoslav People's Army who committed suicide in 1963. | ||
Milošević went on to study law at the University of Belgrade's Law School, where he became the head of the ideology committee of the Yugoslav Communist League's (SKJ) student branch (SSOJ). While at the university, he befriended Ivan Stambolić, whose uncle Petar Stambolić had been a president of Serbian Executive Council (the Communist equivalent of a prime minister). This was to prove a crucial connection for Milošević's career prospects, as Stambolić sponsored his rise through the SKJ hierarchy. | Milošević went on to study law at the University of Belgrade's Law School, where he became the head of the ideology committee of the Yugoslav Communist League's (SKJ) student branch (SSOJ). While at the university, he befriended Ivan Stambolić, whose uncle Petar Stambolić had been a president of Serbian Executive Council (the Communist equivalent of a prime minister). This was to prove a crucial connection for Milošević's career prospects, as Stambolić sponsored his rise through the SKJ hierarchy. | ||
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Since the wars, Milošević's political behaviour has been analyzed as politically opportunist in nature. Claims that Milošević was principally motivated by a desire for power have been supported by many people who had known or had worked for him. Some believe his original goal until the breakup of Yugoslavia was to take control of Yugoslavia, with the ambition of becoming its next great leader, a "second Tito". According to this, Milošević exploited nationalism as a tool to seize power in Serbia, while not holding any particular commitment to it. During the first twenty-five years of his political career in the communist government of Yugoslavia, Milošević was a typical civil servant who did not appear to have nationalist aims. Later, he attempted to present himself as a peacemaker in the Yugoslav Wars and abandoned support of nationalism. He returned to support nationalism during the Kosovo War and appealed to anti-imperialist sentiments. The spread of violent nationalism has also been imputed to indifference to it by Milošević. | Since the wars, Milošević's political behaviour has been analyzed as politically opportunist in nature. Claims that Milošević was principally motivated by a desire for power have been supported by many people who had known or had worked for him. Some believe his original goal until the breakup of Yugoslavia was to take control of Yugoslavia, with the ambition of becoming its next great leader, a "second Tito". According to this, Milošević exploited nationalism as a tool to seize power in Serbia, while not holding any particular commitment to it. During the first twenty-five years of his political career in the communist government of Yugoslavia, Milošević was a typical civil servant who did not appear to have nationalist aims. Later, he attempted to present himself as a peacemaker in the Yugoslav Wars and abandoned support of nationalism. He returned to support nationalism during the Kosovo War and appealed to anti-imperialist sentiments. The spread of violent nationalism has also been imputed to indifference to it by Milošević. | ||
The source of Milošević's nationalistic agenda is believed to have been influenced by the policies of the popular prominent Serbian Communist official and former Yugoslav Partisan [[Aleksandar Ranković]] who was known to promote Serbian national interests in Yugoslavia and hardline police actions against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. He supported a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of Serb unity. | The source of Milošević's nationalistic agenda is believed to have been influenced by the policies of the popular prominent Serbian Communist official and former Yugoslav Partisan [[Aleksandar Ranković]] who was known to promote Serbian national interests in Yugoslavia and hardline police actions against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. He supported a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of Serb unity. Ranković imposed harsh repressive measures on Kosovo Albanians based on accusations that they there were sympathizers of the [[Stalin]]ist rule of [[Enver Hoxha]] in Albania. | ||
Milošević's presidency of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked by several major reforms to Serbia's constitution from the 1980s to the 1990s that reduced the powers of the autonomous provinces in Serbia. | Milošević's presidency of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked by several major reforms to Serbia's constitution from the 1980s to the 1990s that reduced the powers of the autonomous provinces in Serbia. In 1990 Serbia transitioned from a [[Josip Broz Tito|Titoist]], one-party system to a multi-party system and attempted reforms to the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia. The constituent republics of the country split apart amid the outbreak of wars, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded by the former SFRY republics of Serbia and Montenegro. Milošević negotiated the Dayton Agreement on behalf of the Bosnian Serbs, which ended the [[Bosnian War]] in 1995. | ||
===As a war criminal=== | ===As a war criminal=== | ||
During the [[Yugoslavia NATO Bombing|NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]] in 1999, Milošević was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with [[war crimes]] in connection to the wars in [[Bosnian War|Bosnia]], | During the [[Yugoslavia NATO Bombing|NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]] in 1999, Milošević was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with [[war crimes]] in connection to the wars in [[Bosnian War|Bosnia]], Croatia, and [[Kosovo War|Kosovo]]. Milošević resigned from the Yugoslav presidency amid demonstrations following the disputed presidential election of 24 September 2000, and he was arrested by Yugoslav federal authorities on 31 March 2001 on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement. | ||
===Death and aftermath=== | ===Death and aftermath=== | ||
The initial investigation into Milošević faltered for lack of evidence, prompting the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić to extradite him to the ICTY to stand trial for charges of war crimes instead. At the outset of the trial, Milošević denounced the Tribunal as illegal because it had not been established with the consent of the United Nations General Assembly; therefore he refused to appoint counsel for his defence. Milošević conducted his own defence in the five-year-long trial, which ended without a verdict when he died in his prison cell in The Hague on 11 March 2006. | The initial investigation into Milošević faltered for lack of evidence, prompting the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić to extradite him to the ICTY to stand trial for charges of war crimes instead. At the outset of the trial, Milošević denounced the Tribunal as illegal because it had not been established with the consent of the United Nations General Assembly; therefore he refused to appoint counsel for his defence. Milošević conducted his own defence in the five-year-long trial, which ended without a verdict when he died in his prison cell in The Hague on 11 March 2006. Milošević suffered from heart ailments and hypertension, and died of a heart attack. The Tribunal denied any responsibility for Milošević's death and stated that he had refused to take prescribed medicines and medicated himself instead. | ||
After Milošević's death, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded separately in the [[Bosnian Genocide]] Case that there was no evidence linking him to [[genocide]] committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War. | After Milošević's death, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded separately in the [[Bosnian Genocide]] Case that there was no evidence linking him to [[genocide]] committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War. However, the Court did find that Milošević and others in Serbia had committed a breach of the Genocide Convention by failing to prevent the genocide from occurring and for not cooperating with the ICTY in punishing the perpetrators of the genocide, in particular Republika Srpska President [[Radovan Karadžić]] and General [[Ratko Mladić]], and for violating its obligation to comply with the provisional measures ordered by the Court. Milošević's rule has been described by observers as authoritarian or autocratic. | ||
Many members of the [[Alt-Right]] have celebrated his actions during the Yugoslav Wars, with the Serbian nationalist "Serbia Strong/Remove Kebab" becoming Internet memes. | Many members of the [[Alt-Right]] have celebrated his actions during the Yugoslav Wars, with the Serbian nationalist "Serbia Strong/Remove Kebab" becoming Internet memes. | ||
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