Slobodan Milošević, the President of Yugoslavia at the time, was eventually charged with the " murders of about 600 individually identified ethnic Albanians " and " crimes against humanity.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milošević was forced out of office after a disputed election.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

Gaddafi supported Milošević even when Milošević was charged with large-scale ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo.

The first leader to exploit such nationalism for political purposes was communist official Slobodan Milošević who used it to seize power as President of Serbia, and demanded concessions to Serbia and Serbs by the other republics in the Yugoslav federation.

The FRY was initially dominated from 1992 to 1997 by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and his supporters.

By this time however, the influence of Slobodan Milošević was confined to Serbia only as Montenegro had experienced internal regime change in 1996 when former Milošević ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, showed resilience by becoming leader of his party and subsequently dismissing former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, a man who remained loyal to Milošević.

Despite being head of the country, Ćosić was forced out of office in 1993 due to his opposition to Serbian President Slobodan Milošević.

Ćosić was replaced by Zoran Lilić who served from 1993 to 1997, and then followed by Milošević becoming Yugoslav President in 1997 after his last legal term as Serbian president ended in 1997.

On October 5, 2000, Slobodan Milošević was forced to concede defeat after days of mass protests across Serbia.

After the initial euphoria of replacing Milošević, the Serbian population, in reaction to this political maneuvering, was sliding into apathy and disillusionment with its leading politicians.

* 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-after Slobodan Milošević was accused by opposition figures of winning the 2000 election through electoral fraud, mass protests led by the opposition movement Otpor pressure Slobodan Milošević to resign.

Military intervention by Yugoslav security forces led by Slobodan Milošević and Serb militia within Kosovo in response to diverse operations led by the KLA prompted an exodus of Kosovar Albanians / Serbs and a refugee crisis that eventually caused NATO to intervene militarily in order to stop what was widely identified as an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.

* Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević was brought to trial for alleged war crimes, but died in custody in 2006 before the trial could be concluded after more than 4 years of proceedings.

Bildt was also criticized for not mentioning the Srebrenica massacre during a lunch meeting on 15 July 1995 in Belgrade with the Serbian President, Slobodan Milošević and the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladić, even though he had received reports about the ongoing massacre.

Arkan was unofficially allied with Slobodan Milošević, and operated under his control, although he was fairly independent in his day-to-day actions and decisions.

Milošević was subsequently sent to the ICTY and was indicted on charges of crimes against humanity in Kosovo, charges of violating the laws or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and for complicity in genocide in Bosnia.

In a BBC documentary, called the Death of Yugoslavia, and later in his testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia during the trial of Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslav official Borisav Jović revealed that the Bosnian Serb army arose from the Yugoslav army forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

" The incident earned Milošević the support of Serbian people, propelling him to the presidency of Serbia two years later.

SKH began to openly condemn Milošević only in 1989 after Serbian nationalist demonstrations in areas that would later become Republic of Serbian Krajina.

Milan Babić later testified that this policy was driven from Belgrade through the Serbian secret police — and ultimately Milošević — who he claimed were in control of all the administrative institutions and armed forces in the Krajina.

After World War II, when the Communist government seized control of Yugoslavia, Beli dvor was used by presidents Josip Broz Tito and later by Slobodan Milošević.

At international level, Milošević played for the national team of FR Yugoslavia ( later renamed Serbia and Montenegro ), and later for Serbia, surpassing the century of caps for both teams combined, and appearing in two World Cups and one European Championship.

Other bands which were the part of the Serbian New Wave scene include the Belgrade acts Slađana Milošević, Bulevar, Grupa I, Kozmetika, Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bića, and the initial periods in the Laki Pingvini, Piloti and Zana works, the latter three later moving to more commercial pop rock ( Piloti ) and synthpop ( Laki Pingvini, Zana ), and the Novi Sad acts Čista Proza, Pekinška Patka, Kontraritam, the early works of La Strada and Obojeni Program, and some works by Laboratorija Zvuka, the latter three bands becoming the pioneers of the Serbian alternative rock scene.

Pavle later called Milošević and his government responsible for the Yugoslav catastrophe and asked him to resign.

On September 23 / 24, 1987, at the subsequent eighth session of the Central Committee, one that lasted around 30 hours, and was broadcast live on the state television, Milošević had Pavlović deposed, to the utter embarrassment of Ivan Stambolić, who resigned under pressure from Milošević's supporters a few days later.

Several Serb military and political officials, including Milošević, were later indicted and in some cases jailed for war crimes committed during and after the battle.

Slobodan Milošević was later accused of direct involvement.

According to Veselin Šljivančanin, who was later convicted of war crimes committed at Vukovar, the order to shell Vukovar came " from Dedinje " – the elite Belgrade quarter where Milošević lived.

Important artists of Yugoslav New Wave were: Azra, Šarlo Akrobata, Idoli ( famous for their song " Maljčiki " and its respective video in which they ridiculed the soviet soc-realism ), Pankrti ( first punk band in Yu ), Prljavo Kazalište ( started as a punk unit ; the title of their second album Crno bijeli svijet which means " black and white world " holds a reference to the Two Tone movement ), Električni orgazam ( punk at the beginning, they moved towards post-punk and psychedelia later and were described as " The Punk Doors "), Slađana Milošević, Haustor ( mostly reggae, ska and similar influences, but with a more poetic and intellectual approach compared to some danceable bands ), Buldožer, Laboratorija zvuka, Film ( one of the first Yugoslav New Wave groups ), Lačni Franz and many others.

Milošević issued media blackouts of independent media stations ' coverage of protests against his government and restricted freedom of speech through reforms to the Serbian Penal Code which issued criminal sentences on anyone who " ridiculed " the government and its leaders, resulting in many people being arrested who opposed Milošević and his government.

Following the Bulldozer Revolution on 5 October 2000, Milošević was arrested by Serbian police on 1 April 2001, and was subsequently transferred to The Hague to be prosecuted by the ICTY.

The first sign of an economic recovery occurred in 2001 after the removal of Milošević on 5 October 2000.

* Petar Milošević, Arheologija i istorija Sirmijuma, Novi Sad, 2001.

Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milošević, in 2001.

On 8 March 2001, Serbian newsmagazine Vreme published an op-ed piece titled ' Hvala lepo ' by Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović in which she refers in passing to Undeground as " being financed by Milošević " and accuses Kusturica of being " an immoral profiteer ".

During the 1990s, he was one of the leaders of the opposition to the regime of Slobodan Milošević, and became the Prime Minister of Serbia in 2001 after the overthrow of Milošević.

His decree, the ‘ National Assembly of the Presidency of the People ’ s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ,’ was abolished in 2001 after the deposing of Slobodan Milošević.

Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milošević, in 2001.

As the SRS protested against Milošević's extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) in 2001, Milošević urged his supporters to vote for the SRS rather than his own SPS.

Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia left the government in July 2001, as the protest against extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY, and officially left the coalition in July next year.

* on June 28, 2001, Slobodan Milošević was deported to ICTY to stand trial.

* Petar Milošević, Arheologija i istorija Sirmijuma, Novi Sad, 2001.

The 2001 festival ( July 6 to July 14 ) was set as the celebration of Serbia finally being rid of Milošević, as well as of the country opening up to the world again after years of international isolation.

One of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ringleaders, he became Minister of Human and Minority Rights in 2000 after the fall of Slobodan Milošević, and his mandate as a minister was extended in the rump DS-led 2001 government.