Bulldozer Revolution: Milosevic Resigns in Belgrade
Slobodan Milosevic had ruled Serbia through wars, sanctions, and a NATO bombing campaign, but it was a stolen election that brought him down. On October 5, 2000, hundreds of thousands of Serbs flooded into Belgrade after Milosevic refused to accept his defeat in the September presidential election. Protesters stormed the parliament building and set the state television station on fire using a construction vehicle, giving the uprising its name: the Bulldozer Revolution. Police and army units refused orders to fire on the crowds. Milosevic conceded defeat the next day. He was extradited to The Hague in 2001 to face charges of genocide and war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal. He died in his cell in 2006 before the verdict.
October 5, 2000
26 years ago
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