As Serbia's party leader and president (1989–97), pursued Serbian nationalist policies that contributed to the breakup of the socialist Yugoslav federation..
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989–1997 and President of the Federal Republic of.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was being tried on charges of war crimes and genocide at the time of his death. The BBC News website looks at the background to what had been called the most important trial of its kind since Nuremberg after World War II.
The former president faced charges relating to atrocities carried out in Kosovo in 1999, to crimes against humanity committed in Croatia in 1991 and 1992, and to alleged genocide in Bosnia-Hercegovina between 1992 and 1995.
What was Mr Milosevic charged with?
Milosevic's poor health repeatedly delayed the trial |
The indictment relating to Bosnia - the most serious - accuses him of being responsible for the killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats.
It cites the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica and accuses Mr Milosevic of involvement in the murder, imprisonment and mistreatment of thousands of civilians, including women and the elderly.
In Serbia, Mr Milosevic faced additional cha