Initial Appearance Milošević Slobodan 3 July 2001

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For more information: http://www.icty.org/cases/party/738/4 • On Monday 8 October 2001, Judge Almiro Rodrigues confirmed an indictment charging Slobodan Milosevic with crimes committed in Croatia between at least 1 August 1991 and June 1992. The indictment was submitted to Judge Rodrigues by the Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte, on 27 September 2001. • According to the indictment, confirmed on 8 October 2001, Slobodan Milosevic participated in a joint criminal enterprise between at least 1 August 1991 and June 1992. The purpose of this enterprise was the forcible removal of the majority of the Croat and other non-Serb population from approximately one-third of the territory of the Republic of Croatia, an area he planned to become part of a new Serb-dominated state. This area included those regions that were referred to by Serb authorities as the Serbian Autonomous District ( SAO ) Krajina , the SAO Western Slavonia , and the SAO Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem (collectively referred to by Serb Authorities after 19 December 1991 as the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK )) and Dubrovnik Republic . • It is alleged that, during the above period, Serb forces, comprised of Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) units, local Territorial Defence ( TO ) units and TO units from Serbia and Montenegro, local and Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MUP ) police units and paramilitary units, attacked and took control of towns, villages and settlements in the territories listed above. After the take-over, the Serb forces, in co-operation with the local Serb authorities, established a regime of persecutions designed to drive the Croat and other non-Serb civilian population from these territories. • This regime included the extermination, wilful killing or murder of hundreds of Croat and other non-Serb civilians, including women and elderly persons, the deportation or forcible transfer of at least 170,000 Croat and other non-Serb civilians and the arrest and unlawful confinement or imprisonment under inhumane conditions of thousands of Croat and other non-Serb civilians. As a result, virtually the whole of the Croat and other non-Serb civilian population were forcibly removed, deported or killed in the Serbian Autonomous District ( SAO ) Krajina , the SAO Western Slavonia , and the SAO Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem regions. • Further, public and private property in all the relevant areas were intentionally and wantonly destroyed and plundered, including homes, religious, historical and cultural buildings.

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