Slobodan Milosevic was born on 29 august 1941 in Pozarevac, Serbia. His difficult childhood was marked by the suicide of both of his parents. He joined the Serbian Communist Party in 1959, as soon as he'd become eighteen. In 1964, he obtained his diploma of law at Belgrade University. Between 1978 and 1983 he directed several important banks in Belgrade. In 1984, he became President of the Communist Party of Belgrade, and later, in 1987, President of the Communist Party of Serbia. In 1989, he was elected the president of his native country. At the first presidential elections in the history of Serbia, Milosevic and his new party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, won with astonishing ease, and carried off 194 of the 240 seats in parliament. In 1997 Milosevic became President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
In 1991, all the member states of Yugoslavia, except Serbia and Montenegro, aspired to obtain independence, which resulted in a bloody war, particularly on the territories of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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