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Brothers, remember the fate of Yugoslavia! Don’t let that happen to you.” Slobodan Milošević wrote this message to all Russians just two days before he died in prison. The last president of Yugoslavia, along with hundreds of other supporters of national unity, was tried in The Hague.
The Balkan War in the former Yugoslavia was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history. During that time, nationalists—Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and Kosovar Albanians—tore apart what had once been a prosperous country, with the Serbs becoming their common enemy. In August 1995, more than 220,000 Serbs were expelled from Serbian Krajina in just two…