USA HISTORY

Who was the dictator of Bosnia who committed “ethnic cleansing?”

(A) ** Milosovic

(B) Noriega

(C) Stalin

(D) Ceausescu

(E) no answer

Concept note-1: -Slobodan Milošević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: , pronounced [slobǒdan milǒːʃeʋitɕ] ( listen); 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.

Concept note-2: -This process intensified after the mid-1980s with the rise of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who helped foment discontent between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian neighbors. In 1991, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia declared their independence.

Concept note-3: -Radovan Karadžić, (born June 19, 1945, Šavnik, Yugoslavia [now in Montenegro]), physician, author, and politician who was leader (1990–96) of the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and president (1992–95) of the autonomous Republika Srpska, a self-proclaimed Serb republic within Bosnia.

Concept note-4: -Slobodan Milošević was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo.

Concept note-5: -Slobodan Milošević, the President of Yugoslavia, belonged to the ethnic group of Serbs. He was the one who abolished the constitutional autonomy granted to Kosovo.