| April 6, 2006 | - It was announced that Slobodan Milosevic had died of natural causes.
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The New York Times
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| March 19, 2006 | - Eighty thousand people mourned Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade.
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ABC News
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| March 13, 2006 | -
Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in prison at the Hague; it was unclear whether his death was a murder, a suicide, or from natural causes.
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Bloomberg News
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| July 6, 2004 | -
Slobodan Milosevic wasn't feeling well.
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Reuters
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| April 16, 2004 | -
Serbia's constitutional court suspended a law that gave financial benefits to Slobodan Milosevic and other Serb war criminals.
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Associated Press
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| April 14, 2004 | -
Slobodan Milosevic submitted a list of 1,631 witnesses that he plans to call in his defense at The Hague.
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Reuters
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| February 26, 2004 | - The prosecution rested its case against Slobodan Milosevic in his genocide trial.
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New York Times
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was not feeling well.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic refused to undergo a psychiatric evaluation ordered by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal that is trying him for genocide.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
A psychiatric evaluation was ordered for Slobodan Milosevic, whose ill-health has repeatedly delayed his genocide trial.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
Croatian president Stjepan Mesic testified against Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague and accused Milosevic of creating “rivers of blood” in his quest for a Greater Serbia: “He subordinated everything to his war goals; he was always working for the war option.” Biljana Plavsic, the former president of the Bosnian Serb republic, pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity at the Hague.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was suffering from the flu.
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| April 16, 2002 | -
One of Slobodan Milosevic's former aids shot himself in the head to protest a new Yugoslav law legalizing cooperation with the United Nations war-crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense in his genocide and war-crimes trial.
“It is all lies,” he said.
“The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying me here.”
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was reportedly enjoying the novels of Ernest Hemingway and John Updike as he awaits his genocide trial at the Hague; he also enjoys listening to CDs by Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra.
He particularly favors Sinatra's song “My Way.”
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| November 27, 2001 | - The war crimes tribunal at The Hague handed down a new indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for genocide.
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| September 4, 2001 | -
Slobodan Milosevic berated a judge and others at The Hague after genocide was added to the charges he faces there.
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| August 21, 2001 | -
Slobodan Milosevic turned 60.
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| July 31, 2001 | - The playwright Harold Pinter joined the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, saying the former Yugoslav leader's detention at The Hague is illegal.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Slobodan Milosevic declined the services of counsel and refused to enter a plea during his arraignment at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague, which he said was illegal.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Serbia's prime minister gave Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague to be tried for war crimes even though doing so was technically illegal; the prime minister of Yugoslavia resigned in protest.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Yugoslavia's federal cabinet adopted a decree permitting the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic and others to the war-crimes tribunal at The Hague.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Slobodan Milosevic wasn't feeling well.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Yugoslavia established a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the causes of the wars in its former territories and to help the country achieve “social catharsis.” President Vojislav Kostunica said that Slobodan Milosevic should never be extradicted to the Hague.
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| April 3, 2001 | - Yugoslavian commandos arrested former president Slobodan Milosevic on corruption charges.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Serb voters gave a coalition of liberals allied with Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica a majority in parliament, thus completing their repudiation of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his Socialist party.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was interviewed on Yugoslav television: “I can sleep peacefully,” he said, “and my conscience is completely clear.” Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was spending peaceful days at his country house, strolling in the garden, playing with his grandchildren.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was reelected president of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic abdicated after police joined massive demonstrations that successfully overran government buildings; a four-year-old boy who broke away from his father was the first to ascend the steps of the parliament building in Belgrade; later, adult protesters urinated on the floor of the parliament's main chamber.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Saddam Hussein sent senior spies to Serbia to help Slobodan Milosevic, who lost last week's presidential election and was facing daily protests demanding that he leave office; Milosevic's wife, Mira, was said to favor fleeing the country.
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| September 26, 2000 | - An armada of NATO warships was gathering in the eastern Mediterranean to intimidate Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who was apparently defeated at the polls by Vojislav Kostunica; Milosevic's party was refusing to accept defeat.
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