Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević; Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbiafrom 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Among his supporters, Milošević was known by the nickname of "Sloba". He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. He rose to power as Serbian President after he and his supporters claimed the need to reform...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth20 August 1941
The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,
We wanted to save as many lives as possible ... Serb lives and Croat lives and Muslim lives.
move military troops into areas along the border with Serbia.
No one has the right to beat you! No one will ever beat you again.
I am very aware that you will definitely not wish to testify in my favor. Neither do I expect this. I do expect you, however, to be willing to allow your testimony to contribute to the establishment of truth before an institution whose formation you supported.
I am the moral winner, ... I am proud of everything I did for my people and my country, and everything I did was honest.
Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.
More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.
I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),
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.
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.
Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,
What they (U.N. prosecutors) fail to say is that the activities of the Serbian people were activities aimed at defense,
we believe that the Serb people would be better served by having a democratically elected government that represents their values.