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Slobodan Miolsevic was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. In 1999, Milosevic was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crimes including genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic resigned his presidency in 2000, and was arrested in 2001 and sent to the ICTY to stand trial for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands. Miolsevic claimed the Tribunal was illegal because it had not received the consent of the UN General Assembly, and thus refused to appoint counsel for himself. Milosevic represented himself for the five-year trial, and passed away in his cell in 2006 before the trial had concluded. This video shows footage from Milosevic’s first appearance at The Hague.

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On November 21, 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement was initialed, bringing to an end three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Richard Holbrooke, then the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, helped to broker the agreement. In this video from the day the Agreement was signed, Holbrooke discusses how close they came to not achieving any agreement, saying: “We went to sleep last night having closed down the talks because each side kept changing positions and we felt that the deadline had to be real, it had to be credible, and it wasn’t a bluff. We drafted failure statements, asked each side to recommit itself to an indefinite ceasefire, passed out the statements, assembled our team and sent them all to bed, except for one group of people whom we asked to go over and tell each president, and during the night they went to work with each other and came back to us early in the morning with a request that we finish it up very fast.”

The agreement was formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995, and became formally known as the Dayton Peace Accords.

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In this interview, a Bosnian woman named Leila explains her decision to keep the child she became pregnant with after being raped in captivity. During the Bosnian War, the Army of the Republika Srpska is believed to have raped over 50,000 Bosnian Muslim women. After the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia declared the policy of genocidal rape a “crime against humanity.”

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Angelina Jolie explains the reason why she “felt a responsibility” to learn about the Bosnian War. Ultimately, Jolie’s personal interest in its harrowing legacy inspired “The Land of Milk and Honey,” her directional debut. The famous actress and humanitarian describes the making of the film and her experience while interviewing the victims of the war.

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Listen to three survivors describe the horrors they endured as teenagers in the Bosnian War, including rape and torture. The war, which erupted in April of 1992, was the result of the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By the end of the war in December of 1995, countless atrocities and war crimes had been committed by the warring Croatian and Serbian factions against children, women, and men of all ages.

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