Socialist Party of Serbia

Socialist Party of Serbia is a political party in Serbia. It is a left-wing populist and "social-democratic" party. The Socialist Party of Serbia was set up by former Serbian Yugolsav dictator 



  Slobodan Milošević. It is now led by Ivica Dačić. 

In power

Under the rule of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav state committed genocide and other crimes against humanity against Bosniaks, Croats and Albanians across the Balkans. 










War crimes trials

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

2007 rulings

Following his death, in four separate rulings, Slobodan Milošević 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 

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

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

 Bosnian genocide
 Complicity in genocide
 Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War

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References

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Category:Socialism
Category:Bosnian genocide
Category:Crimes against humanity
Category:Political parties in Serbia