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2002Feb, 12

The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.

The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) lasted from February 2002 until his death in March 2006. Milošević faced 66 counts of crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

In a judgment issued on 24 March 2016 in the separate trial of Radovan Karadžić and on 22 November 2017 in the separate trial of Ratko Mladić, the ICTY said there was no evidence that Milošević "participated in the realization of the common criminal objective" and that "Milošević and other Serbian leaders openly criticised Bosnian Serb leaders of committing crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing and the war for their own purposes" during the 1992-95 war.

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  • 12May

    Fidel Castro

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    Saddam Hussein

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