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
I am the moral winner, ... I am proud of everything I did for my people and my country, and everything I did was honest.
What they (U.N. prosecutors) fail to say is that the activities of the Serbian people were activities aimed at defense,
The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,
we believe that the Serb people would be better served by having a democratically elected government that represents their values.
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
They were targeting peasants who were plowing their fields outside the village. This was a savage game where people were targets.
I am very aware that you will definitely not wish to testify in my favor. Neither do I expect this. I do expect you, however, to be willing to allow your testimony to contribute to the establishment of truth before an institution whose formation you supported.
Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,
NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.
I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),
It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.