Trial of Slobodan Milošević
UN Criminal Tribunal's trial of Yugoslavia's dictator during the Yugoslav Wars
Trial of Slobodan Milošević
The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague lasted for just over four years from 2002 until his death in 2006. Milošević faced 66 counts of crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and was extradited to The Hague on 28 June 2001. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges. He was the first sitting head of state to be charged with war crimes by an international tribunal. In 2016, the ICTY issued a judgement in the separate trial of Radovan Karadžić, which concluded that there was no sufficient evidence from that particular case that Milošević had "participated in the realization of the common criminal objective" and that he "and other Serbian leaders openly criticised Bosnian Serb leaders of committing crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing and the war for their own purposes" during the...
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