War crimes in the former Yugoslavia

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With war still raging in Ukraine, Max Pearson looks back at the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and their echoes today. He hears an account from the former US Secretary of State, the late Madeleine Albright, of why she backed Nato air strikes in 1998 to prevent atrocities by Serbian forces in Kosovo. Three years later, the former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges relating initially to Kosovo, but later also to Bosnia and Croatia. Two of Milosevic's defence lawyers remember the hearings, and Max gets analysis from Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and a former member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. In the second part of the History Hour, we hear a powerful personal account of the famine in Greece during World War Two; plus, two stories from Internet history: how the World Wide Web was invented in 1989 and the creation of the Tinder data app in 2012.