Milosevic

[muh-loh-suh-vich]

noun

1. Slobodan 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.

Milošević

/ miːlɒsɛˌvɪtʃ /

noun

1. Slobodan (ˈslɒbədæn). 1941–2006, Serbian politician, president of Serbia (1989–97) and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1997–2000). He supported ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–95) and Kosovo (1998–99). He was ousted in 2000 and brought to trial (2001) for war crimes; died in prison before the trial was concluded

Example Sentences

Along with Omarska and Trnopolje, the camps formed part of a coordinated system of ethnic cleansing by Milošević’s regime.

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Milošević, the first European head of state to be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity, died of a heart attack in 2006 before his trial at The Hague could conclude — but he is still widely held responsible for orchestrating the ethnic violence against Bosnians.

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Enesa Krupić’s mother, calling from another city, told her Serbian soldiers, following orders from then-president Slobodan Milošević, were moving block by block — tanks in front, troops behind and empty buses in between.

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In Serbia, Slobodan Milošević rose to power by exploiting ethnic grievances and consolidating control over key institutions.

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Milošević decided to carve out a “Greater Serbia” — a campaign to unify all Serb-inhabited territories, even those outside Serbia’s official borders — and backed Serbian forces in Croatia and Bosnia in a campaign of ethnic cleansing that culminated in the 1995 genocide at Srebrenica.

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