It was far from an ordinary trial: The defendant’s name was Slobodan Miloševic. He was the president of what was left of Yugoslavia and Serbia. In June 2001, he faced charges for crimes against humanity, including genocide, murder, torture, destruction of property, and attacks on civilians.
The wars in the former Yugoslavia resulted in 200,000 deaths; 50,000 women were raped; and 2.2 million citizens were forced to leave their homes, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the first case of this nature, nor would it be the last.
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