Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević; Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbiafrom 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Among his supporters, Milošević was known by the nickname of "Sloba". He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. He rose to power as Serbian President after he and his supporters claimed the need to reform...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth20 August 1941
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.
The war which is being conducted against this country is now being conducted with (Western) money.
I consider the decision to be utterly unjust.
I cannot call my next witness. I cannot sit here any longer. Everybody knows I have been coming here with great difficulty.
I don't need to imagine, I see no problem with that.
The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.
They were targeting peasants who were plowing their fields outside the village. This was a savage game where people were targets.