Slobodan Milosevic Biography

Occup.Criminal
BornAugust 20, 1941
DiedMarch 11, 2006
Aged64 years
Slobodan Milosevic was born on August 20, 1941, in Pozarevac, Serbia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His dad, Svetozar Milosevic, was a Serbian Orthodox priest, as well as his mommy, Stanislava Milosevic, was an institution educator. Both his parents at some point devoted suicide, his dad in 1962 and his mom in 1973. In 1960, Milosevic enrolled in the University of Belgrade, where he examined law as well as fulfilled his fiancée, Mirjana Markovic. They got wed in 1965 and had 2 kids, Marija and Marko.

Milosevic started his political career as a participant of the Communist Party (later relabelled the Socialist Party of Serbia). In 1984, he came to be the head of the event's Belgrade branch and swiftly increased through the ranks. In 1986, he was elected leader of the Serbian Communist Party, which marked the beginning of his rise to power.

In the late 1980s, Milosevic made use of climbing Serbian nationalism to consolidate his power. He promoted the root cause of Serbian minorities in Kosovo, a province with a predominantly Albanian population, and also in Croatia and Bosnia, where Serbs were likewise a minority. His initiatives resulted in the removing of Kosovo's freedom, rising stress between Serbs as well as other ethnic groups in the region.

In 1989, Milosevic was chosen President of Serbia, as well as he kept this position up until 1997. Throughout his period, he promoted the expansion of Serbia's territorial claims and enhanced military visibility in Kosovo, Croatia, and also Bosnia. His aggressive territorial moves caused the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia as well as the break out of the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, followed by the Bosnian War in 1992.

Milosevic's program was connected with extensive civils rights violations, including ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and also the compelled variation of civilian populaces. These atrocities finished in the 1995 Srebrenica carnage, where greater than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were eliminated by Bosnian Serb pressures under the command of General Ratko Mladic.

The worldwide neighborhood's response to these war crimes materialized in economic permissions against Serbia and also NATO-led military intervention in 1995, which compelled the signing of the Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War. Nonetheless, Milosevic's continued hostility toward Kosovo's Albanian populace brought about additional problem and the 1999 NATO battle war Serbia.

Milosevic was eventually ousted from power in October 2000 after massive objections complying with a challenged political election. In 2001, he was jailed as well as extradited to The Hague to face test at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of battle crimes, crimes against humanity, as well as genocide. Throughout the course of his trial, Milosevic demanded safeguarding himself as well as regularly interrupted process with long speeches as well as accusations against the tribunal.

Milosevic's test was not wrapped up, as he died of a cardiovascular disease in his jail cell on March 11, 2006. Despite the several battle criminal activities dedicated during his guideline, Slobodan Milosevic remains a debatable number in Serbia, with some viewing him as a nationwide hero and also others as a despicable dictator responsible for immense suffering and also bloodshed.

Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Slobodan.

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15 Famous quotes by Slobodan Milosevic

Small: We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world.
"We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems"
Small: Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions
"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions"
Small: At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the sta
"At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them"
Small: We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be
"We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be"
Small: It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity
"It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity"
Small: Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality f
"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it"
Small: For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations b
"For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations"
Small: Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their nation
"Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language"
Small: It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isnt attacking Serbia because of Milosev
"It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia"
Small: The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers a
"The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people"
Small: The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the
"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization"
Small: NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is whe
"NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation"
Small: It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian peo
"It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery"
Small: Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving.
"Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail"
Small: The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments
"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments"