Slobodan Milošević

**Slobodan Milošević**  (Serbian: **Слободан Милошевић**, pronounced []; August 20, 1941 – March 11, 2006) was a Serbian Yugoslav president.

## Overview

He was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1996, and then the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1996 to 2000. After his fall from power in 2001, he was sent to The Netherlands to stand trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague over charges of genocide. However, he died after five years in prison before the trial was completed. The UN tribunal said that Milosevic died of a heart attack.

#### 2007 rulings

Following his death, in four separate rulings, he was found to be a part of a joint criminal enterprise which used crimes to remove Croats, Bosniaks and Albanians from large parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.

In 2007, in its rulings against Republic of Serbian Krajina President Milan Martić, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded:

In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) cleared Serbia under Milošević's rule of direct responsibility for some of the war crimes. However, the ICJ stated that

#### Kosovo rulings

In the two Kosovo rulings, the Nikola Šainović et al. and Vlastimir Đorđević cases, Milošević was found to have been "one of the crucial members" of the criminal enterprise aimed at uprooting large parts of Albanians from Kosovo.

#### 2016 ruling

In its 2016 ruling regarding Radovan Karadžić, the ICTY found that "there was no sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milošević agreed with the common plan [to create territories ethnically cleansed of non-Serbs]" citing "Milošević's repeated criticism and disapproval of the policies and decisions made by the Accused and the Bosnian Serb leadership", though it also noted that

#### 2021 ruling

In its 2021 ruling against Serbia's operatives Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatovićq, the follow-up International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals concluded:

## Related pages

- Ratko Mladić
- Biljana Plavšić
- Bosnian genocide
- Complicity in genocide
- Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War

## Infobox (president)

- **name**: Slobodan Milošević
- **image**: Stevan Kragujević, Slobodan Milošević, portret.jpg
- **order**: 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- **primeminister**: Radoje Kontić
Momir Bulatović
- **term start**: July 23, 1997
- **term end**: October 7, 2000
- **predecessor**: Zoran Lilić
- **successor**: Vojislav Koštunica
- **order2**: 1st President of Serbia, President of Serbia
- **primeminister2**: Dragutin Zelenović
Radoman Božović
Nikola Šainović
Mirko Marjanović
- **term start2**: January 11, 1991
- **term end2**: July 23, 1997
- **predecessor2**: Office created
- **successor2**: Dragan Tomić <small>(Acting)</small>
 Milan Milutinović
- **order3**: 7th President of Serbia, President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia
- **primeminister3**: Desimir Jevtić
Stanko Radmilović
- **term start3**: May 8, 1989
- **term end3**: January 11, 1991
- **predecessor3**: Petar Gračanin
 Ljubiša Igić <small>(Acting)</small>
- **successor3**: Office abolished
- **birth place**: Požarevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia
- **death place**: The Hague, Netherlands
- **alma mater**: University of Belgrade
- **party**: Socialist Party of Serbia
(after 1990)
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
(until 1990)
- **children**: Marko Milošević
Marija Milošević
- **nationality**: Serbians, Serbian
- **signature**: Slobodan Milosevic Signature.png
- **footnotes**: a.  Became "President of the Presidency" of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (a constituent country of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia) on May 8, 1989. After Breakup of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia collapsed, he stayed as the first President of the Republic of Serbia from January 11, 1991.