I won’t go into a defense of Milosevic as you seem to want to blame the systemic problems Tito created in post-war Yugoslavia on him. I will say that the Federal policy of allowing Albanian terrorism in Kosovo is what brought Milosevic to power originally. Croatia’s Franjo Tudjman began pushing Ustashe symbolism and a push towards independence while taking no responsibility for the Yugoslavian national debt as he was targeting EU membership at the time. His use of Ustashe symbols is ultimately what fractured Yugoslavia as Slovenia left with little problem. Tudjman brought opened all the unhealed wounds papered over by Tito following WWII.
As regards the civil war in Bosnia, you seem to think that atrocities were all one sided. However, you had people in the post-breakup Bosnian government that were clearly war criminals who blatantly attacked and murdered civilians. I’m just bringing some perspective to the article.
Milosevic consolidated power in Serbia several years before the communist party of Yugoslavia fractured into communist parties in each republic.
You need to watch footage from the last congress of the Yugoslavian communist party. When delegates from Slovenia and Croatia could no longer take bullying from Milosevic, they left while delegates from Serbia cheered. That event signalled the end of Yugoslavia.
Milosevic rose to power “to protect Serbs in Kosovo”, Tudjman rose to power in Croatia several years later as a reaction - to protect Croats from Milosevic and Serb dominant federal government.
This ultimately ended up in a war (1991). Once there was a stalemate in Croatia, both Milosevic and Tudjman turned their focus to Bosnia, each wanted a piece of it. Both are responsible for igniting the war in Bosnia.
Bosnian Muslims did not start the war.
Please name people in post-war Bosnian government who were clearly war criminals. Were they sent to the Hague court to be prosecuted?