Between the late 1980s and 1990s, the republics of the former Yugoslavia experienced severe ethnic tensions, resulting in an all-out war that resulted in some of the worst war crimes committed in Europe since World War II. In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was established with the aim of punishing the perpetrators of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and preventing similar atrocities from happening again. One of the most significant and high-profile trials of this court was that of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of both Serbia and the former Yugoslavia, accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, abuses of power and corruption. Milosevic died in 2006 and his trial never ended. Whether or not he would have been convicted of these crimes is a matter of debate. Although Milosevic was a key figure during this period whose actions undoubtedly influenced the chain of events that unfolded, I believe that his power-seeking motivations were not unique to him; his actions in the former Yugoslavia could have been committed by a number of others who were driven by the same desire for power. However, since he was president of Serbia and essentially commander in chief of Serbian forces who carried out unconscionable acts of cruelty against Muslims and other non-Serbian civilians, particularly in the attempt to annex Bosnia-Herzegovina, he is responsible for his actions as an authoritarian figure . Although his main objective seemed to be focused on the territorial expansion of the Serbian state, he led military forces to deport and kill non-Serbian civilians in large numbers and thus was in the middle of the paper... .rime of Genocide." "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Perennial, 2003. 62-63. Print.Glaurdic, J. "Inside the Serbian War Machine: The Milosevic Telephone Intercepts, 1991 -1992." Eastern Europe 23.1 (2009): 98. Print.Glaurdic, J. “Inside the Serbian War Machine: Milosevic's Wiretaps, 1991-1992.” Eastern European Politics and Society 23.1 (2009): 94 Print.Greenfield , Daniel M. “Crime of Complicity in Genocide: How the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia Got It Wrong and Why It Matters” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 98.3 (2008): 921-24 April 2011.Hoare, Marko A. “Bosnia and Herzegovina and International Justice: Past Failures and Future Solutions” 24.191 (2010). SAGE journals online. Network. April 18. 2011.