Milosevic

[ muh-loh-suh-vich ]

noun

1. Slo·bo·dan [sloh, -b, uh, -dahn], 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.

Milošević

/ miːlɒsɛˌvɪtʃ /

noun

1. MiloševićSlobodan19412006MSerbianPOLITICS: politicianPOLITICS: head of state 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

Example Sentences

It is not hard to see a link between this psychological preoccupation and the eliminationists and other mass murder policies of genocidal leaders, including, for example, Hitler, Milosevic, ISIS, Putin and should he regain power, Trump.

From Salon

Isikoff highlights one particular condition of that deal, which is that Affinity will be building a memorial to the victims of NATO’s 1999 bombing attacks against the government of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who would later be charged in The Hague for leading so-called ethnic cleansing campaigns against other Balkan populations.

From Slate

The Western military alliance had launched the air war in March that year to force then Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to end a brutal onslaught against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo.

From Seattle Times

First, Cicin-Sain offers a helpful primer in how Yugoslavia’s breakup set the stage for a territorial war waged by Bosnian Serbs, led by Slobodan Milosevic and designed to shatter the multiethnic fabric of Sarajevo.

From Los Angeles Times

Critics nowadays say that Vucic, who was an ultranationalist ally of Milosevic in the 1990s, has reinstated that autocracy in Serbia since coming to power in 2012, by taking full control over the media and all state institutions.

From Seattle Times