Milosevic

[ muh-loh-suh-vich ]

noun

Slo·bo·dan [sloh-buh-dahn], /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɑn/, 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.

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Not a single American soldier was lost in combat, and eventually, as a result, Milosevic was toppled and tried for war crimes.
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Serbian activists taped a photo of Milosevic to a barrel and left it next to a metal pipe in the middle of town.
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Milosevic died of a heart attack in The Hague in 2006 while being tried for crimes against humanity.
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Tomlinson testified that MI6 had devised a similar “plot” to kill the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, in 1992.
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Bernard-Henri Levy in France, who made a 1994 documentary urging military intervention against Slobodan Milosevic.
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Because they really had no more effective channel of communication to Milosevic.
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And while Milosevic may have won this battle – he may, indeed, have lost the war.
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It agreed, in other words, to do Milosevic's bidding and dirty work.
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In conducting these discussions, Milosevic's aim is two-fold.
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Milosevic was freely elected by a majority wider than Clinton's.
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British Dictionary definitions for Milošević

Milošević

/ (miːlɒsɛˌvɪtʃ) /

noun

Slobodan (ˈslɒbədæn). 1941–2006, Serbian politician, president of Serbia (1989–97) and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1997–2000). He supported ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–95) and Kosovo (1998–99). He was ousted in 2000 and brought to trial (2001) for war crimes; died in prison before the trial was concluded

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