Slobodan Milosevic emerged as a prominent force in Serbian politics, in 1987. He quickly ascended the political ladder and was elected President o

Milosevic holds responsibility for one of the greatest genocide monstrosities of the late twentieth century. He knowing ordered the “massacre of unarmed men, the rape of defenseless women, and the violent ethnic cleansing of a whole people.” It is imperative Milosevic is tried for the war crimes and crimes against humanity which he committed because allowing him to escape will give him another opportunity to instill havoc upon Europe and the World. Milosevic is currently accused of sixty-six counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. These counts were commited by Milosevic since 1991, during wars in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia. Each incident in these areas brought about its own specific charges against Milosevic.

The Bosnia Indictment is the only indictment which carries a genocide charge along with it. Genocide is the systematic and planned elimination of a national or ethnic group. There are twenty-nine counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against Milosevic from the Bosnian War. One of these two counts is genocide and the other is “complicity in genocide“. The genocide charge is because Bosnian Serbs killed thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in an attempt to create an ethnically pure culture. The crimes the Bosnian Serbs committed which were constituted as genocide included murder, torture, rape, and other inhumane acts. Milosevic is not only guilty for individual responsibility in the genocide, but since he organized and supported the genocide, he is guilty of superior responsibility. He had a goal of eliminating the majority, if not all, of Muslims and Croats in the region and he should be proven guilty for all charges against him.

f Serbia by the national assembly in May 1989. The following thirteen years of his reign would eventually lead to his downfall and arrest. The trouble began when nationalism began to grow in Yugoslavia’s republics, which occurred after communist governments throughout Eastern Europe disbanded. The feeling of nationalism led to the republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina removing themselves from the federation. The problem from this separation was generated by the large Serbian populati

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