The Dismantling of Yugoslavia (Part III)

Abstract

The four-year trial of Slobodan Milosevic was the culmination of ICTY service to the NATO program in the Balkans. It was designed to show the world by an elaborate procedure leading ultimately to the conviction of the top Serb leader—the first head of state in modern times to be indicted, seized, and tried in this fashion—that the "judgment and opprobrium of history awaits the people in whose name their crimes were committed," as Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said in 1992.

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