The Charges: Massacres and Ethnic Cleansing
Source: TimesOnline
Slobodan Milosevic faces 66 charges of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He is also charged with genocide in Bosnia.
In the Croatian indictment Milosevic is accused of a “joint criminal enterprise” to remove the majority of the Croat and non-Serb population from one third of the republic’s territory between August 1991 and June 1992. It includes the massacre of 264 people taken from Vukovar hospital.
The genocide charge covers actions in Bosnia from 1992-5. The indictment includes the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995, in which up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were executed.
In Kosovo, Serbian police and Yugoslav soldiers were active between February 1998 and the end of the Nato bombing campaign in June 1999. The most serious charges cover 16 massacres, including the killing of 45 Albanians in Racak in January 1999, which prompted Nato’s intervention.
"Believers see their sins as if they were sitting at the foot of a mountain and feared that it may fall on them, while the corrupt see their sins as if they were a mere fly that flew by their nose."
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