7 Years Ago In TIME

7 YEARS AGO IN TIME

In 1999, NATO air strikes effectively ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia.

Who wants to die for Slobodan Milosevic? He is one of the great losers of history. He failed to hold together the former Yugoslavia, and he failed to build in its place a Greater Serbia. In the past 10 years, he has launched four wars and lost three ... As Europe's most disruptive...

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