When was slobodan milosevic born

The bodies of six of the victims were buried in Daljski Atar. All of the victims were interrogated in the Territorial Defence training centre in Erdut and then killed. The bodies of the victims were buried in a mass grave in Daljski Atar. On 4 May , members of the special operations component of the DB, arrested five non-Serb civilians in the village of Grabovac.

The civilians were taken away and killed. Their bodies were later buried in Tikves Park. Serb military forces, comprised of JNA, TO and volunteer units acting in co-operation with local and Serbian police staff and local Serb authorities, arrested and detained thousands of Croat and other non-Serb civilians from the territories specified in the following short- and long-term detention facilities:.

Military barracks in Kumbor in Montenegro, a transit detention facility run by the JNA that also included scores of long-term detainees. Military barracks in Begejci in Serbia run by the JNA, approximately two hundred and sixty detainees. The living conditions in these detention facilities were brutal and characterised by inhumane treatment, overcrowding, starvation, forced labour, inadequate medical care, and constant physical and psychological assault, including mock executions, torture, beatings, and sexual assault.

Then, the town and villages were attacked, even those inhabitants who had complied with the demands. These attacks were intended to compel the population to flee. After taking control of the towns and villages, the Serb forces sometimes rounded up the remaining Croat and other non-Serb civilian population and forcibly transported them to locations in Croatia controlled by the Croatian government or deported them to locations outside Croatia, in particular Serbia and Montenegro. On other occasions, the Serb forces in co-operation with the local Serb authorities imposed restrictive and discriminatory measures on the non-Serb population and engaged in a campaign of terror designed to drive them out of the territory.

The majority of the non-Serbs that remained were then deported or forcibly transferred. According to the census, the Croat and other non-Serb population of these areas was approximately as follows:.

Virtually the whole Croat and non-Serb population of these areas was forcibly removed, deported or killed. The joint criminal enterprise did not achieve its goal of forcibly removing, deporting or killing the entire Croat and non-Serb population of the Dubrovnik Republic. From 1 August until May , Slobodan MILOSEVIC , acting alone or in concert with other known and unknown members of the joint criminal enterprise, planned, instigated, ordered, committed, or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation, or execution of the wanton destruction and plunder of the public and private property of the Croat and other non-Serb population, within the territories of the SAO SBWS, the SAO Western Slavonia and the SAO Krajina although these actions were not justified by military necessity.

This intentional and wanton destruction and plunder included the plunder and destruction of homes and religious and cultural buildings, and took place in the following towns and villages:. From 1 October until 7 December , Slobodan MILOSEVIC , acting alone or in concert with other known and unknown members of the joint criminal enterprise, planned, instigated, ordered, committed, or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation, or execution of a military campaign directed at the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings in order to achieve the forcible removal of its non-Serb population.

It was the objective of the Serb forces to detach this area from Croatia and to annex it to Montenegro. While the Serb forces seized the territory to the south-east and north-west of the city of Dubrovnik within two weeks, the city itself was under attack throughout the time alleged in this indictment. During an unlawful extensive shelling campaign conducted from high ground east and north of Dubrovnik, with an unobstructed view of the city and its environs, and from JNA naval vessels offshore, forty-three Croat civilians were killed and numerous others wounded.

The shelling incidents and the names of the killed civilians are set out in Annex II attached to this indictment. From 1 October until 7 December , during this same shelling attack, Slobodan MILOSEVIC , acting alone or in concert with other known and unknown members of the joint criminal enterprise, planned, instigated, ordered, committed, or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation and execution of the wanton destruction or wilful damage and plunder of the public and private property of the Croat and other non-Serb population within the area of the Dubvrovnik Republic.

This campaign included the destruction, damage or plunder of homes, religious, historical and cultural buildings and other civilian public or private buildings, not justified by military necessity.

During this shelling campaign, approximately shells fired by the Serb forces impacted in the Old Town area of the city. A number of the buildings in the Old Town and the towers on the city walls were marked with the symbols mandated by the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict No military targets were located on or within the walls of the Old Town. During the shelling on 8 to 13 November of the city of Dubrovnik, buildings in the Old Town were damaged, as well as hotels, housing refugees and other civilian structures in other parts of the city.

During the shelling on 6 December of the city of Dubrovnik, at least six buildings in the Old Town were destroyed in their entirety and hundreds more suffered damage. Hotels, housing refugees and other civilian structures were severely damaged or destroyed in other parts of Dubrovnik, specifically in the Lapad and Babin Kuk areas. In October , the Serb forces took control of the Croatian towns and villages Konavle, Zupa Dubravaccka, and Primorje in the proximity of the city of Dubrovnik.

Much of this property was transported to Montenegro in JNA military vehicles. The JNA thereafter instituted measures to track and maintain the looted property. JNA troops also systematically destroyed public, commercial, and religious buildings as well as private dwellings in the above listed towns and villages.

This destruction took place after the cessation of fighting when the areas were securely under the control of the JNA. All acts and omissions alleged in this indictment between 1 August and June occurred on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Between at least 1 August and at least June , a state of armed conflict existed in Croatia. Until 7 October , this armed conflict was internal in nature. From 8 October an international armed conflict and partial occupation existed in the Republic of Croatia.

All acts and omissions charged as Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of occurred during the international armed conflict and partial occupation of Croatia. At all times relevant to this indictment, the victims of Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of were persons protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Conventions.

All acts and omissions charged relative to the destruction of property as Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of involved "protected property" under the relevant provisions of the Geneva Conventions. At all times relevant to this indictment, Slobodan MILOSEVIC was required to abide by the laws and customs governing the conduct of armed conflicts, including the Geneva Conventions of and the additional protocols thereto. All acts and omissions charged as Crimes against Humanity were part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the Croat and other non-Serb civilian population of large areas of Croatia.

The Republic of Croatia, formerly one of the six republics of the SFRY, is located in south-eastern Europe and borders Slovenia and Hungary to the north and north-east and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the east and south.

In the census, the population of the Republic of Croatia was 4,, of which 3,, In advance of the elections, the nationalistic Serbian Democratic Party SDS was founded in Knin, advocating the autonomy and later secession of predominately-Serb areas from Croatia.

Between 19 August and 2 September , Croatian Serbs held a referendum on the issue of Serb "sovereignty and autonomy" in Croatia. The vote took place in predominately Serb areas of Croatia and was limited only to Serb voters. Croats who lived in the affected region were barred from participating in the referendum. The result of the vote was overwhelmingly in support of Serb autonomy. His mother took her life 11 years later, and her brother, a former general, also committed suicide.

After graduating with a law degree in , Milosevic joined the Communist Party, the customary avenue to power in Communist Yugoslavia. He moved up the career ladder as a business administrator, eventually assuming the leadership of the state-owned gas company before being appointed director of Beobanka, one of the major state-run banks. He also married Mirjana Markovic, a professor of Marxist sociology at the University of Belgrade who was even more devout in her communist beliefs than Milosevic.

Markovic, who has been called "the Lady Macbeth of the Balkans," is said to insulate Milosevic from criticism and takes a hard line against dissent.

Milosevic and his wife are reportedly devoted to each other and have two children -- daughter Marija, who has run a radio and television station, and son Marko, a disco owner and auto-racing enthusiast. Markovic was instrumental in helping Milosevic oust his mentor, Ivan Stambolic, from leadership of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Stambolic had been Milosevic's friend for 25 years, and pulled Milosevic along with him as he climbed the organizational ladder.

The Serbians wanted curbs put on the autonomy enjoyed by the province, which was dominated by ethnic Albanians. Milosevic broke away from a meeting with ethnic Albanians to mingle with angry Serbians in a suburb of Pristina.

The Serbs protested that they were being pushed back by police with batons, and Milosevic told them, "No one will dare to beat you again. It was a pivotal moment in the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and in Milosevic's rise to power.

Milosevic arranged for TV cameras to be on hand that day, and footage of the incident was shown repeatedly on state TV. The incident not only heightened his profile as a Serbian nationalist, it also violated the "brotherhood and unity" dictum enforced by the late Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito to prevent ethnic strife.

As the leader of Serbia's Communist Party, Milosevic demanded the national government return control of Vojvodina and Kosovo -- both autonomous provinces -- to Serbia, and in he replaced party leaders in both provinces with his own supporters.

A year later, the Serbian assembly dumped Stambolic and replaced him with Milosevic. In , Milosevic orchestrated changes in the Serbian constitution that cut back on the provinces' autonomy. But an anti-Serb backlash erupted in the other republics, and in Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia all declared their independence. The fighting, which lasted three years, brought "ethnic cleansing" to the world's attention and established Milosevic as a key power broker in the region.

His participation was considered essential to the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian conflict. In the course of his professional political activity, which he became actively engaged in , he held the most prominent political positions both in Belgrade and Serbia.

He was elected President of the Presidency of Serbia for the first time in At multi-party presidential elections carried out in Serbia in December , Slobodan Milosevic scored a sweeping victory and polling majority of votes of the citizens of the Republic of Serbia was elected President of the Republic. Milosevic with a crowd of his supporters He was elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on July 23, and remained in office until October 5, While in office President Milosevic dedicated himself to the peaceful resolution of the Kosovo problem.

His efforts were deliberately undermined by NATO, who not only armed KLA and al-Qaeda terrorists operating in Kosovo, but also launched an illegal bombing campaign causing a massive humanitarian catastrophe in He is a leading personality in the Republic of Serbia whose name is associated with the establishment of its constitutional-legal unity and the most important state and national interests of Yugoslavia and its citizens.