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Milosevic
[ muh-loh-suh-vich ]
noun
- ··岹 [sloh, -b, uh, -dahn], 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.
Ѿš𱹾ć
/ ːɒɛˌɪʃ /
noun
- Ѿš𱹾ćSlobodan19412006MSerbianPOLITICS: politicianPOLITICS: head of state 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
That 2019 story referenced two articles Burkle authored on the destructive nature of autocratic leaders with character disorders — yes, like Trump, but also like Idi Amin, Slobodan Milosevic, Kim Jong-un and Moammar Gadhafi.
It is not hard to see a link between this psychological preoccupation and the eliminationists and other mass murder policies of genocidal leaders, including, for example, Hitler, Milosevic, ISIS, Putin and should he regain power, Trump.
Isikoff highlights one particular condition of that deal, which is that Affinity will be building a memorial to the victims of NATO’s 1999 bombing attacks against the government of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who would later be charged in The Hague for leading so-called ethnic cleansing campaigns against other Balkan populations.
The Western military alliance had launched the air war in March that year to force then Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to end a brutal onslaught against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo.
First, Cicin-Sain offers a helpful primer in how Yugoslavia’s breakup set the stage for a territorial war waged by Bosnian Serbs, led by Slobodan Milosevic and designed to shatter the multiethnic fabric of Sarajevo.
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