While the first hearings of the International Criminal Tribunal began in 1995 in The Hague, Slobodan Milosevic, the main architect of the conflict, was still in power in Serbia. He was not arrested until 2000, after new acts of violence ...See moreWhile the first hearings of the International Criminal Tribunal began in 1995 in The Hague, Slobodan Milosevic, the main architect of the conflict, was still in power in Serbia. He was not arrested until 2000, after new acts of violence against Kosovo Albanians. His trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide will prove to be extraordinary. The former nationalist president, whose insolence in the face of a court whose legitimacy he contested, died before the end of the trial. The warlord Ratko Mladic and the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic Radovan Karadzic are sentenced to life imprisonment after several years on the run.
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